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Quotes about children
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. (Banks Leslie)
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children (Banks Leslie)
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. (Banks Leslie)
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. (Banks Leslie)
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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. (Banks Leslie)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (Banks Leslie)
You see much more of your children once they leave home. (Banks Leslie)
There is no sinner like a young saint. (Banks Leslie)
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner. (Banks Leslie)
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. (Banks Leslie)
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. (Banks Leslie)
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. (Banks Leslie)
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life. (Banks Leslie)
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody. (Banks Leslie)
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. (Banks Leslie)
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. (Banks Leslie)
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. (Banks Leslie)
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that. (Banks Leslie)
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. (Banks Leslie)
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. (Banks Leslie)
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. (Banks Leslie)
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. (Banks Leslie)
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Banks Leslie)
Children have more need of models than of critics. (Banks Leslie)
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. (Banks Leslie)
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