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Children Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
- Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
- Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
- And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its…
- A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is…
- The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the…
- The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano…
- Parents want two opposite things at once: they want their children to excel, and they want their children to be docile. But the two don't…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- 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