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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.-Albert Einstein

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.-Harry Edwards

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.-John Ruskin

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While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.-Angela Schwindt

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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Children make you want to start life over.-Muhammad Ali

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.-Margaret Mead

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.-Franklin P. Jones

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.-Mark Twain

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Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.-Queen Rania of Jordan

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The greatest thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother.-Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.-Marcelene Cox

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Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.-Dillon Burroughs

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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.-Lady Bird Johnson

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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.-Harold Hulbert

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Children are the proof we’ve been here… they are the best thing and the most impossible thing.-Allison Pearson

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Baby eagles can never soar under their family’s wing.-Liu Yang

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The soul is healed by being with children.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.-Abigail Van Buren

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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.-Sherman Alexie

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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.-Antonin Scalia

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A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often.-Unknown

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When a new baby is expected, the mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!-Nursing Mothers Association of Australia

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.-Frederick Douglass

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A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.Carl Sandburg

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Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.-Douglas Adams

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Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.-Edward Morris

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Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.-Maya Angelou

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.-Oscar Wilde

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I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.-Jimmy Kimmel

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Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.-Heather Gudenkauf

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.-Pearl S. Buck

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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.-P.J. O’Rourke

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The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.-Bill Cosby

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.-George Eliot