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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday
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She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
Anne Brontë
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
Henry Lawson
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers
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Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of you would dare to do the things and reach for goals in your own lives that have meaning for you as individuals, doing as much as you can for everybody, but not worrying if you don't please everyone.
Lillian Gordy Carter
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan of Arc
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
Eberhard Arnold
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
James Baldwin
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress
Harriet Jacobs
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In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th, the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States, and war is what they got.
George W. Bush
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse
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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
Mary Church Terrell
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We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
Howard Zinn
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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