15,393 Quotes About Children
- Author Ivan Illich
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Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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A child today, an adult tomorrow.
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- Author Lois McMaster Bujold
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.
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- Author Sarvesh Jain
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Never let her feel bad when she chooses to rest a bit even in an ordinary day. For others, it maybe an ordinary day, for her she may have struggled with an unspoken battle.
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- Author Ogden Nash
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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.
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- Author Terri Marie
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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." Douglas MacArthur
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- Author Sarvesh Jain
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Killing somebody who has no voice because it disrupts your plan of comfort is inhumane. Either you're born as a pro-life or you're not, it's not something you choose.
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- Author Clive Barker
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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
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- Author Sarvesh Jain
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Being kind is an interesting challenge amidst crying baby and an ungrateful partner.
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