| "The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal." »Thomas H. Kean |
| "There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child." »Thomas Andrew Bailey |
| "The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest." »Michael |
| "Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." »Mary MacCracken |
| "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." »Sir John Lubbock |
| "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." »Groucho Marx |
| "The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters." »Rachel Blanchard |
| "I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up." »Will Rogers |
| "Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child." »Dennis Prager |
| "A child miseducated is a child lost." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child." »Laurens Van der Post |
| "Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child." »Danish proverb |
| "I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night." »Garry Gamble |
| "All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." »Benjamin McLane Spock |
| "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." »Bradley Miller |
| "If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse |
| "Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner |
| "If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well." »Black Hawk |
| "The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "A grownup is a child with layers on." »Paxton Blair |
| "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "The most potent muse of all is our own inner child." »Stephen Nachmanovitch |
| "Don't set your wit against a child." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "Prejudice is the child of ignorance." »William Hazlitt |
| "Success is the child of audacity." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." »Bette Davis |
| "Never give a child a sword." »Latin Proverb |
| "We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play." »Heraclitus |
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