Children Archives - World Quotations

It's fun being a kid.

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It’s fun being a kid.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

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But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help …

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

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