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You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.

People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

Phyllis Schlafly

One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Maria Montessori

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Mary Ellen Chase

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Andrew Taylor Still

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive — you are leaking.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

Margaret Sanger

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled this man by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.

P. G. Wodehouse

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

All revolutions devour their own children.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.