Children

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  • My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
        Frank Zappa   Best?
  • Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.
        Rev. Jesse Jackson   Best?
  • When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
        John Lubbock   Best?
  • Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
        Ronald Reagan   Best?
  • A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
        Proverb   Best?
  • A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
        Scottish Proverb   Best?
  • I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
        Pamela Anderson   Best?
  • It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
        Paris Hilton   Best?
  • From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
        R. D. Laing   Best?
  • Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
        Heywood Broun   Best?
  • Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
        Lewis Thomas   Best?
  • Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together.
        Vincent van Gogh   Best?
  • Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
        Etty Hillesum   Best?
  • I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
        Peter Ustinov   Best?
  • Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
        Margaret Cho   Best?
  • The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.
        Max Lucado   Best?
  • By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
        Marshall McLuhan   Best?
  • Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
        Jack Kerouac   Best?
  • You are the product of your own brainstorm.
        Rosemary Konner Steinbaum   Best?
  • Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
        Alice Walker   Best?
  • One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
        Iris Murdoch   Best?
  • There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.
        Po Bronson   Best?
  • Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
        Saadi   Best?
  • He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.
        Saadi   Best?
  • Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
        Wernher von Braun   Best?
  • In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
        Elzear Blaze   Best?
  • What I wanted to do was work with kids with behavioral and emotional handicaps. It's a puzzle, learning each child, because each child is different.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.
        Matthias   Best?
  • Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
        Martha Beck   Best?
  • Women are great. But I didn't take up acting so I could kiss a girl.
        Orlando Bloom   Best?
  • The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
        Prophet Muhammad   Best?

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