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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Children
Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Children
Robert Pollok

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Children
Alexander Pope

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Childhood
Marcel Proust

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A mother's heart is always with her children.
Mothers
Proverb

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Children
Proverb

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Children
Proverb

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
Marriage
Proverb

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Children
Proverb

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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Politicians and Politics
Dan Quayle

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Children are poor men's riches.
Children
John Ray

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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Inheritance
Ruth E. Renkel

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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Poetry and Poets
Rainer Maria Rilke

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There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
Patience
C. S. Robinson

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All revolutions devour their own children.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ernst Rohm

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Children
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Children
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Motivation
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Giving
John Ruskin

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
Education
John Ruskin

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Children
John Ruskin

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Honesty
John Ruskin

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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Fathers
Bertrand Russell

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Children
Saki

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Meaning of Life
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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