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Quotes about children
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. (Burke Chris)
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. (Burke Chris)
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires. (Burke Chris)
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up. (Burke Chris)
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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. (Burke Chris)
The wildest colts make the best horses. (Burke Chris)
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. (Burke Chris)
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven. (Burke Chris)
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. (Burke Chris)
Children and drunks always speak the truth. (Burke Chris)
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap. (Burke Chris)
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. (Burke Chris)
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. (Burke Chris)
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. (Burke Chris)
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance. (Burke Chris)
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Burke Chris)
Childhood is the sleep of reason. (Burke Chris)
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it (Burke Chris)
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. (Burke Chris)
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. (Burke Chris)
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections. (Burke Chris)
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. (Burke Chris)
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions. (Burke Chris)
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. (Burke Chris)
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history. (Burke Chris)
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