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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Enemies
Claudette Colbert

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How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
Dance and Dancing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Children
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
America
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Children
Richard H. Dana

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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Doubt
Clarence Darrow

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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Parents and Parenting
Clarence Darrow

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Children
Princess of Wales Diana

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Children
Phyllis Diller

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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Children
Isadora Duncan

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Children
Wayne Dyer

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Children
Harry Edwards

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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us children again.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Children
English Proverb

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Children
Epictetus

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Noble fathers have noble children.
Fathers
Euripides

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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Lies and Lying
William Feather

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Children
Henry Fielding

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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The future
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Parents and Parenting
Malcolm S. Forbes

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Children
David Fyfe

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Children
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Deception
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun