Quotes 101 till 120 of 698.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
A Woman of No Importance (1893) -
Children can be disciplined with love.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Children have more need of models than of critics
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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