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Children Quotes


"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."


"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."


"I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated."


"I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?"



"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."


"We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children."


"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."


"Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone."


"One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them to be."



"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."


"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand."


"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."


"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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