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| Quote for category - children |
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- in children
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Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
- in children
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
- in children
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- in children
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
- in children
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You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
- in children
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
- in children
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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
- in children
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
- in children
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
- in children
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Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
- in children
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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
- in children
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?
- in children
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
- in children
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Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
- in children
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
- in children
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
- in children
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- in children
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