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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Parents and Parenting
Michael Levine

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Children
Roger Lewin

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Children
Lazarus Long

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Children
Groucho Marx

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Children
Margaret Mead

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What is done to children, they will do to society.
Children
Karl A. Menninger

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Knowledge
Hector Hugh Munro

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Children
Ogden Nash

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash

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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children.
Ecology
Native American Proverb

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Where children are, there is the golden age.
Children
Novalis

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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Parents and Parenting
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
Parents and Parenting
Jean Paul

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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Fathers
William Penn

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Parents and Parenting
Plato

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Children
John Plomp

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Children
Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Children
Robert Pollok

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A mother's heart is always with her children.
Mothers
Proverb

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Children
Proverb

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
Marriage
Proverb

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Children
Proverb

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Children are poor men's riches.
Children
John Ray

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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Inheritance
Ruth E. Renkel

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There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
Patience
C. S. Robinson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun