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Quotes about children
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You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. (Burke Chris)
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. (Burke Chris)
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities. (Burke Chris)
Children are the keys of paradise. (Burke Chris)
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. (Burke Chris)
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. (Burke Chris)
It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them. (Burke Chris)
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. (Burke Chris)
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. (Burke Chris)
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism. (Burke Chris)
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go (Burke Chris)
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. (Burke Chris)
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. (Burke Chris)
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. (Burke Chris)
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children. (Burke Chris)
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. (Burke Chris)
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. (Burke Chris)
Never have children, only grand children. (Burke Chris)
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. (Burke Chris)
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. (Burke Chris)
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. (Burke Chris)
The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. (Burke Chris)
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. (Burke Chris)
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Burke Chris)
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Burke Chris)
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