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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde
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Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. -Anne Frank
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We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk
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Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Proverb
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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. -Sophocles
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare
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We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity. -Orville Wright
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby
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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. -Charles Darwin
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold
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Our children change us... whether they live or not. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell
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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -George W. Bush
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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal
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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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Children need models rather than critics. -Joseph Joubert
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We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Christopher Morley
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. -Albert Einstein
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul Ii
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Benjamin Spock
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. -Josh Billings
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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben
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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. -Marcelene Cox
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