It's All About the Kids
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Introduction
a list of quotations about children
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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
~Stacia Tauscher
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones
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A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
~Author Unknown
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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.
~Bill Vaughan
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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
~Harold Hulbert
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
~William Stafford
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
~Fran Lebowitz
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
~Rabindranath Tagore
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Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it.
~Not Your Average Dictionary
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook
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What is a home without children? Quiet.
~Henny Youngman
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Our genes make us immortal.
~The Secret of Life, PBS
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing
~Phyllis Diller
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There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
~Frank A. Clark
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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
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There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
~Walt Streightiff
Gee, thanks GD, I haven't thought of Bill Vaughan in at least twenty years. Growing up in Kansas City, I always looked forward to Bill Vaughan's observations in the Kansas City Star. His column was called "Starbeams." One of my favorites was, "Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine." Thanks for reminding me of him.
"Just what makes that little ol ant think he can move a rubber tree plant..." Your comment put a song in my head, Ol Hippie! :->
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