Talk:Children

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 * A child is that which tells in the street what his parents say at home.
 * Anonymous


 * A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
 * Olive Schreiner


 * Children should be seen and not heard - Unknown


 * Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.
 * Alice Roosevelt Longworth, (1884-1980).


 * I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents. ~ Bill Maher


 * If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


 * If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
 * Abigail Van Buren


 * In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
 * Lisa T. Shepherd


 * Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
 * D.H. Lawrence


 * People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
 * Leo J. Burke


 * Sunt pueri pueri et pueri puerilia tractant.
 * Children are children and children do childish things
 * Unknown


 * The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
 * O.A. Battista


 * The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
 * Katharine Whitehorn


 * The greatest prejudice that exists in the modern world, the only one almost universally accepted, is the prejudice against children.
 * Alden Loveshade


 * The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
 * King Edward VIII


 * There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it
 * Astrid Lindgren


 * There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
 * W.C. Fields


 * Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
 * Roger Lewin


 * You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
 * Neal A. Maxwell


 * Children are expensive to raise. If you can't afford one, take an aspirin...and hold it between your knees.
 * Neal Boortz


 * Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
 * Sam Levenson


 * If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
 * Norman Douglas

Two conflicting organisational elements
Currently, most quotes on the subject are entered alphabetical by author. But, an entire book was excerpted as a section, and rather than integrating these, they were left separate. This is discordant, and should be remedied. 204.62.118.242 17:24, 29 November 2019 (UTC)