Quotes with child-raising

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  • Maria Weston Chapman Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Success is the child of audacity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Al Green Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sir Richard Steele That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Charles Morgan The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Alistair Cooke The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Richard Dawkins The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • William Wordsworth The child is father of the man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Jean Paul The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • William Wordsworth The child is the father of the man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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