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Our children change uswhether they live or not. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. – Anatole Broyard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes. – Lawana Blackwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. – Lawana Blackwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. – Isodore Duncan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. – Phyllis Diller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children – Lewis B. Frumkes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. – Neil Gaiman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. – Elain Heffner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. – Carl Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. – John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. – Dan Quayle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. – David Richerby	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. – Lydia Sigourney	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last. – William Graham Sumner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply. – Sonia Taitz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Clothes are like children.... the smaller they are the more care they need – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
first casualties of every are the weak people like women, children and elderly and the last people who speak about are the UN, EU and USA – Abdirisak Ishak	added by Abdi 14 years ago
first casualties of every war are the weak people like women, children and elderly and the last people who speak about are the UN, EU and USA – Abdirisak Ishak	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. (to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band in Wales) – Prince Phillip	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's not that age brings childhood back again; Age merely shows what children we remain. – German proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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