Children Quotes
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The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the same goal. And that's become dramatically more expensive because of the growth in median house size, which was in turn caused by higher spending at the top.
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There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
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You have to be strong for your children as they're dependent on you. But with that responsibility comes great satisfaction. I'm looking forward to all the milestones in their lives that we'll share.
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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
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It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
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Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
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We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
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As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
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I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.
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The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
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The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
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As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.
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Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.
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I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job.
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Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers
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You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
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If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
