Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 25243.
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4 -
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
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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 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.
As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007) -
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 today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
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Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
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Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
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Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
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