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Grandparents sort of
sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children. |
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Alex Haley |
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A new idea is like a
child. It's easier to conceive than to
deliver. |
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Ted Koysis |
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A mother never realizes
that her children are no longer
children. |
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Holbrook Jackson |
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A man never stands as
tall as when he kneels to help a child. |
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Knights of Pythagoras |
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Alas! That such affected
tricks Should
flourish in a child of six! |
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Hilaire Belloc |
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A food is not necessarily
essential just because your child hates
it. |
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Katharine Whitehorn |
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A child is an island of
curiosity surrounded by a sea of
question marks. |
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Shell Oil Company |
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A child of five would
understand this. Send somebody to fetch
a child of five. |
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Groucho Marx |
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A baby sitter is someone
who watches your TV set While your kids
cry themselves to sleep. |
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Unknown |
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Age does not make us
childish, as some say; it finds us true
children. |
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Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe |
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All children alarm their
parents, if only because you are forever
expecting to encounter yourself. |
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Gore Vidal |
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A key to helping a child
cope with an illness is to involve her
in some aspect of the treatment. |
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Cynthia Rosin |
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A child becomes an adult
when he realizes that he has a right not
only to be right but also to be wrong. |
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Thomas Szasz |
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Elephants and
grandchildren never forget. |
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Andy Rooney |
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The one thing that kids
need is consistency. |
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Julianne Moore |
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Young children are such
nasty little beasts! |
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Jane Welsh Carlyle |
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Our revenge will be the
laughter of our children. |
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Bobby Sands |
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I wrote a few children's
books... not on purpose. |
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Steven Wright |
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My children teach me to
slow down and enjoy life. |
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Gena Lee Nolin |
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Children are the anchors
that hold a mother to life. |
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Sophocles |
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I hate Disneyland. It
primes our kids for Las Vegas. |
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Tom Waits |
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Children are the hands by
which we take hold of heaven. |
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Henry Ward Beecher |
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The trouble with children
is that they're not returnable. |
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Quentin Crisp |
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When children are doing
nothing, they are doing mischief. |
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Henry Fielding |
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A good scientist is a
person in whom the childhood quality of
perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he
gets an answer, he has other questions. |
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Frederick Seitz |
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A three year old child is
a being who gets almost as much fun out
of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as
it does out of finding a small green
worm. |
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Bill Vaughan |
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Ah! what would the world
be to us If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before. |
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Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow |
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A dramatist is usually
thought of as a slightly benighted child
of nature who somehow or other did it
all on a Ouija board. |
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Lyman Abbott |
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A good parent must like
his children, but he must not have an
urgent need to be liked by them every
minute of the day. |
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Haim Ginott MD |
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Adults are always asking
little kids what they want to be when
they grow up-- 'cause they're looking
for ideas. |
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Paula Poundstone |
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A family is a unit
composed not only of children but of
men, women, an occasional animal, and
the common cold. |
