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- Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
- Graham Greene
- A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
- Mary Howitt
- In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
- Eda J. Le Shan
- You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
- Gypsy Smith
- A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."
- Charles B. Vaughan
- Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
- Author Unknown
- Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
- Richard Bach
- He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
- J. Hawes
- The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
- J. Martin Kohe
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