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1. "Children need your presence more than your presents. "
   --Jesse Jackson
2. "Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never."
   -- Anna Jameson
3. "One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
   -- Randall Jarrell
4. "If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."."
   -- Jerome Klapka Jerome
5. "All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."
   -- Earvin "Magic" Johnson
6. "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
   -- Lady Bird Johnson
   
   
7. "A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children."
   -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
8. "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
   --Franklin P. Jones
9. "Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
   -- Franklin P. Jones
10. "Children have more need of models, than of critics."
    -- Joseph Joubert

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11. "Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty."
    -- Louis Kaplan
12. "A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have? He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two."
    -- Richard Kehl
13. "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
    -- Garrison Keillor
14. "What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting ahead that they display in traffic."
    -- Mary Ellen Kelly
15. "A child miseducated is a child lost."
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16. "Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."
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17. "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation Where they will not be judged by the color of their skin But by the content of their character."
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18. "Wealth and children are the adornment of life."
    -- Koran

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19. "When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them."
    -- Charles Lamb
20. "A child is fed with milk and praise."
    -- Mary Lamb
21. "We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them."
    -- Dr. Jess Lair
22. "The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent."
    -- Mel Lazarus
23. "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
    -- Fran Lebowitz
24. "I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."
    -- Fran Lebowitz
25. "All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
    -- Fran Lebowitz
26. "Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
    -- Fran Lebowitz
27. "The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
    -- Sam Levenson
28. "Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
    -- Roger Lewin
29. "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
    -- Lazarus Long
    
    

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30. "Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child."
    -- Mary MacCracken
31. "The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
    -- Andrew H. Malcolm
32. "She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
    -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
    -- Groucho Marx
34. "My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
    -- Groucho Marx
35. "D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children."
    -- W. Somerset Maugham
36. "God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."
    -- Phyllis McGinley
37. "Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."
    -- Mignon McLaughlin
38. "Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."
    -- Margaret Mead
39. "Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
    -- Margaret Mead
40. "A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in."
    -- Adolph Meyer
41. "If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
    -- Maria Montessori
42. "He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy."
    -- Robert Moses

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43. "Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
    -- Ogden Nash
44. "Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are naïve."
    -- Ogden Nash
45. "Where children are, there is the golden age."
    -- Novalis

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