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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?Journal entry, May 20, 1913 during her brief career as a boarding-school teacher
Ruth Benedict, An Anthropologist
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Logan Pearsall Smith
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Adrienne Rich
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra Behn
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Austin O'Malley
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali,
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Proverb
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Princess of Wales Diana
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.
Viola Spolin
