Children Quotes
18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors
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Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to…
— Rajneesh
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Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become…
— Rajneesh
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Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far…
— Rajneesh
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it
— Jean Chretien
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For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to…
— Rajneesh
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If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our…
— Hosea Ballou
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And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us in contradiction at…
— George H. W. Bush
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When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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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…
— Khalil Gibran
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I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve…
— Franklin Pierce
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What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children…
— Vaughn J Featherstone
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Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That…
— Gil Hodges
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She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other…
— Rajneesh
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The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having…
— Rajneesh
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A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his…
— Rajneesh
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The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect…
— George W. Bush
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To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with biology. It is…
— Rajneesh
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The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children;…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
— Mell Lazarus
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Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife,…
— Alvin Francis Poussaint
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Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in…
— Alvin Francis Poussaint
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