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Children Quotes by Robert Breault

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Robert Breault describes how children press their noses to a window, looking out or in, and how returning to adult reality after a while in a child’s mind can be jarring. He notes that parents often become teachers, and that a parent’s identity can feel limited to the child’s world.

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We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

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A watched child never learns.

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To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

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If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

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What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

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The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

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You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

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The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

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A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

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There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

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All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be…

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What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

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I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents…

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Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter…

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I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that…

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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will…

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Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to…

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To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

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Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom?…

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The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

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When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

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In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

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For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

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If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

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All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

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The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

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It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

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In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

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If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

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If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

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The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane,…

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Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

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In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there…

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Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he…

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Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and…

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I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found…

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There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who…

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You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet…

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a…

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.