F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Children Quotes

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Children Quotes , Firsts Quotes

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Children Quotes , Home Quotes

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Children Quotes

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friends Quotes , Children Quotes

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Children Quotes , Writing Quotes

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Children Quotes , People Quotes

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

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We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Encouragement Quotes , Children Quotes

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Children Quotes , Love You Quotes

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mother Quotes , Children Quotes

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

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Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Children Quotes , Flames Quotes

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

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