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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. – Margaret Mead	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. – Ursula K. LeGuin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. – William Feather	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children are a poor man's wealth. – Danish proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. – Roger Rosenblatt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight. – Roger Rosenblatt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. – William Makepeace Thackeray	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hitchhiker No No, no, not 6 I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel. Ted That -- good point. Hitchhiker 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office. Ted Why Hitchhiker 'Cause you're fired – There's Something About Mary	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. – Walt Disney	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. – Sydney Harris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. – Maxim Gorky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. – Fran Lebowitz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. – Fran Lebowitz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Her children arise up, and call her blessed. – Book of Proverbs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. – J. B. Priestley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. – Maya Angelou	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children. – Judith Pugh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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