Children

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  • Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
        Moliere   Best?
  • The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
        Ovid   Best?
  • The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
        Stephen Nachmanovitch   Best?
  • A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
        Confucious   Best?
  • No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.
        Aesop   Best?
  • We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
        Plato   Best?
  • Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
        Queen Victoria   Best?
  • An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?
  • Never give a child a sword.
        Latin Proverb   Best?
  • Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
        William Stafford   Best?
  • I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.
        John Stuart Mill   Best?
  • It was said that boys should go on their first sea voyage at the age of ten, but surely this notion was never put forth by anyone's mother. If the bay were to be raised one degree in temperature for every woman who had lost the man or child she loved at sea, the water would have boiled, throwing off steam even in the dead of winter, poaching the bluefish and herings as they swam.
        Alice Hoffman   Best?
  • We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  • Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
        Ronald Reagan   Best?
  • I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!
        Robert Anthony   Best?
  • What will a child learn sooner than a song?
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • A mother understands what a child does not say.
        Jewish Proverb   Best?
  • A child is the root of the heart.
        Maria de Jesus   Best?
  • A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
        Carl Sandburg   Best?
  • I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
        Paris Hilton   Best?
  • The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts.
        Mara Mitchell   Best?
  • Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
        Austin L. Sorensen   Best?
  • Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
        The Koran   Best?
  • Existence precedes and rules essence.
        Jean-Paul Sartre   Best?
  • Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
        Moses Hasid   Best?

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