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Friday, 5 September 2008
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"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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Browse Quotations about Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
A child is fed with milk and praise.
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
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.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Adults are obsolete children.
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.
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Children always turn to the light.
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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.
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Children need models rather than critics.
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.
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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.