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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

Albert Einstein

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.

African-American Proverb

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.

Ruth E. Renkel

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Albert Einstein

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children

Howard Zinn

Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels.

Eileen Elias Freeman

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them

Unknown

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Peter Ustinov

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Charles DeLint

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

Leon R. Yankwich

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so

Ernestine Rose

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Henry Louis Mencken

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

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