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Quotes regarding children.

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  • "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." --Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) Emotions
  • "Children hallow small things. A child is a priest of the ordinary, fulfilling a sacred office that absolutely no one else can fill. The simplest gesture, the ephemeral movement, the commonest object all become precious beyond words when touched, noticed, lived by one's own dear child." -- Mike Mason, The Mystery of Children (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2001), p. 27
  • "Look around you. Everywhere. They are there. In every home - lurking in dark corners ... small, bi-pedal entities with almost human brains play their games in which adults are the pawns. They play and wait for the time when they will take over the world!" -- John Blair Moore, Invaders from Home, Piranha Press, 1990, Book 1 of 6.
  • "The fear that seeing naked people in some way harms children is not supported, however, by academic research. The small handful of studies on this topic in psychology and sociology have shown, instead, that children reared in an atmosphere containing family social nudity may benefit from the practice. If this is true, then proposed laws outlawing either social nudity in the home or children's participation at naturist (or nudist) settings are unjustified." --Mark Storey in Children, Social Nudity and Scholarly Study
  • "The children wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. Fifteen and sixteen-year-old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will also be employed. Total war!!" --Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition, 1943.
  • "I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?" --Sharon Tate as quoted in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000) by Greg King
  • "CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge." --Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary
  • "We start off playing with our babies, but they end up toying with us." --Leonid S. Sukhorukov, All About Everything
  • "With the birth of each child you lose two novels." --Candia McWilliam, In Guardian 5 may 1993
  • “Sometimes, you have to take a risk to give your kids what you want to give them.” --Noel Edmonds, from the gameshow, Deal or no Deal, 5th November 2008.

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  • "A child is that which tells in the street what his parents say at home." --Anonymous
  • "A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world." --Olive Schreiner
  • "Children should be seen and not heard" - Unknown
  • "I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents." ~ Bill Maher
  • "If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." --Abigail Van Buren
  • "In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul." --Lisa T. Shepherd
  • "Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." --D.H. Lawrence
  • "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." --Leo J. Burke
  • "Sunt pueri pueri et pueri puerilia tractant" - Children are children and children do childish things" -- Unknown
  • "The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day." --O.A. Battista
  • "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." --Katharine Whitehorn
  • "The greatest prejudice that exists in the modern world, the only one almost universally accepted, is the prejudice against children." --Alden Loveshade
  • "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." --King Edward VIII
  • "There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it" --Astrid Lindgren
  • “There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.” --W.C. Fields
  • "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." --Roger Lewin
  • "You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms." --Neal A. Maxwell
  • "Children are expensive to raise. If you can't afford one, take an aspirin...and hold it between your knees." --Neal Boortz
  • “Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.” --Sam Levenson
  • “If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.” --Norman Douglas
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