15,393 Quotes About Children
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.
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- Author Bell Hooks
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When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.
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- Author Germaine Greer
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If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.
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- Author Steve Maraboli
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One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The voice of reason is lost in the envious echoes of hearts torn by battle. The song of our children echo the misfortune of their parent's haze---we all started out small and had dreams to become something more than what we were.
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- Author John Taylor Gatto
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Was it possible I did like kids, just not the script written for them?
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- Author John Taylor Gatto
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Unceasing competition for official favor in the dramatic fish bowl of a classroom delivers cowardly children, little people sunk in chronic boredom, little people with no apparent purpose for being alive.
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- Author John Taylor Gatto
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I can’t believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.
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- Author John Taylor Gatto
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Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.
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