Quotes and sayings about tag  children

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

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• Education

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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• Education

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL.'What if she cuts herself?'THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

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• Humor

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

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• Humor

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

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• Life

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

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• Humor

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

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• Truth

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

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• Inspirational

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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• Books

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

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• Education

While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

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• Love

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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• Happiness

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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• Inspirational

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

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• Love

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

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• Inspirational