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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. (Collins Stephen)
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 (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. (Collins Stephen)
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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. (Collins Stephen)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (Collins Stephen)
You see much more of your children once they leave home. (Collins Stephen)
There is no sinner like a young saint. (Collins Stephen)
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner. (Collins Stephen)
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. (Collins Stephen)
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. (Collins Stephen)
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody. (Collins Stephen)
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. (Collins Stephen)
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. (Collins Stephen)
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. (Collins Stephen)
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. (Collins Stephen)
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Collins Stephen)
Children have more need of models than of critics. (Collins Stephen)
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. (Collins Stephen)
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