15,393 Quotes About Children
- Author R.S. Thomas
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Children's SongWe live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The adult subterfuge.And though you probe and pryWith analytic eye,And eavesdrop all our talkWith an amused look,You cannot find the centreWhere we dance, where we play,Where life is still asleepUnder the closed flower,Under the smooth shellOf eggs in the cupped nestThat mock the faded blueOf your remoter heaven.
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- Author Maxwell King
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Children are starving for story, the kind that builds on hope, the kind that echos for a lifetime. We need story in our lives, not dreams based on greed.
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- Author Nelson Mandela
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We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
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- Author Sarah Waters
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She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.
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- Author Abbi Waxman
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It's not that I'm not occasionally interested in romance, or even just sex. It's just that the chances of my interest coinciding with opportunity and, more important, physical energy are very remote."Rachel frowned. "You guys make it very hard for us single women to look forward to having kids."Angie and I spoke in unison. "Good.
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- Author Jasimen Phillips
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Our children serve as the greatest reminder that kindness is the greatest service.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.
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- Author Kamand Kojouri
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We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another’s handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more.
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- Author Carlos Wallace
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A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man.
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