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We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise. – Sandy Farquhar	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. – William Faulkner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. – Gerald R. Ford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all – Betty Naomi Friedan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. – David Friedman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter. – Lavina Christensen Fugal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures. – William H Gass	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. – John Gray	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. – M. Grundler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things. – Marion Hammer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. – Napolean Hill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident. – James P. Hogan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children are our most valuable natural resource. – Herbert Clark Hoover	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. – Shirley Mount Hufstedler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. – Zora Neale Hurston	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Your children need your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. – Louis Johannot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. – Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two. – Richard Kehl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wealth and children are the adornment of life. – Koran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. – Madeleine L'Engle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. – Jesse Lair	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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