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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Parents and Parenting
Don Marquis

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Children
Groucho Marx

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Children
Margaret Mead

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Heart
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What is done to children, they will do to society.
Children
Karl A. Menninger

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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Childhood
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Youth
John Milton

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Childhood
John Milton

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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Taxes and Taxation
Margaret Mitchell

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Children
Clark Moustakas

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Knowledge
Hector Hugh Munro

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Children
Ogden Nash

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash

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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children.
Ecology
Native American Proverb

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Men and Women
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Where children are, there is the golden age.
Children
Novalis

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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Children
Austin O'Malley

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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Parents and Parenting
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Children
Ovid

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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
Parents and Parenting
Jean Paul

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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Fathers
William Penn

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Children
Pablo Picasso

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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Age and Aging
Pindar

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Parents and Parenting
Plato

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Children
John Plomp

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