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Children Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,…
- You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls,…
- Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many…
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and…
- Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone…
- You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
- Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow…
- Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you…
- Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the…
- Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
- I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You…
- And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your…
- The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our…
- The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon