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  Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
 ~child quotes by William James, The Principles of Psychology

  Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life
 ~inspirational sayings about Children quotes by Henry Doherty

  Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?
 ~child quotes by Thomas Szasz

  Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
 ~famous quotes about Teenagers by Doug Larson

  If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
 ~child sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.
 ~child quotes by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy
 ~inspirational sayings about Baby quotes by Author Unknown

  The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
 ~child quotes by Frank Pittman, Man Enough

  TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
 ~famous quotes about Television by Author Unknown

  Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
 ~child sayings by Welsh Proverb

  The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
 ~child quotes by Washington Irving

  What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
 ~inspirational sayings about Success quotes by Gene Fowler

  Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next dayIt would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken
 ~child quotes by Bill Dodds

  I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
 ~famous quotes about Feminism by Gloria Steinem

  You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
 ~child sayings by Polish Proverb

   The past is never dead, it is not even past.
 ~child quotes by William Faulkner

   Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
 ~good sayings about Poverty by Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti

   Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the pastLet it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go
 ~child quotes by Brooks Atkinson

   We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
 ~motivational quotes about Environment sayings by Lynn White, Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, 1967

   Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
 ~child sayings by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

   I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
 ~child quotes by E.B. White

   You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
 ~good sayings about Society by Art Buchwald

   For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
 ~child quotes by Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

   Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age
 ~motivational quotes about Missing You sayings by John Dryden

   For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
 ~child sayings by Edwin Way Teale

   Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
 ~child quotes by Marion C. Garretty

   The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
 ~good sayings about Civilization by Sigmund Freud

   If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
 ~child quotes by Judith Hayes, In God We Trust: But Which One?

   There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
 ~motivational quotes about Wisdom sayings by Charles Dickens

   He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere
 ~child sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
 ~child quotes by James Thurber

   Anyone can carry his burden for one day. Anyone can be pleasant, courteous, and friendly for one day. And that continued is all there is to life.
 ~good sayings about Friendship by

   Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
 ~child quotes by J.B. Priestley

   Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind"Pooh!" he whispered"Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw"I just wanted to be sure of you."
 ~motivational quotes about For a Friend sayings by A.A. Milne

   True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
 ~child sayings by Edward Frederick Halifax

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