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  • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
        Plato   Best?
  • Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
        Haim Ginott   Best?
  • Every child deserves a home and love. Period.
        Dave Thomas   Best?
  • A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.
        Scottish Proverb   Best?
  • A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
        Washington Irving   Best?
  • We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.
        Jamie Lee Curtis   Best?
  • The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • I saw the angel in the marbe and carved until i set it free.
        Michelangelo   Best?
  • Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
        Phillips Brooks   Best?
  • May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
        Irish Blessing   Best?
  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past.
        Marcus Tullius Cicero   Best?
  • A person's a person, no matter how small.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.
        Herbert Hoover   Best?
  • The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
        Ovid   Best?
  • The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • A small rock holds back a great wave.
        Homer   Best?
  • A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
        Homer   Best?
  • Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. (TV listing for the movie The Wizard of Oz in the Marin Independent Journal.)
        Unknown   Best?
  • George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
        Alice Roosevelt Longworth   Best?
  • Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
        Edgar Allan Poe   Best?
  • However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.
        Valerie Harper   Best?
  • You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
        L. Ron Hubbard   Best?
  • You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her.
        Rachel Hunter   Best?
  • A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.
        Rodney Dangerfield   Best?
  • It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.
        John Gotti   Best?

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