Child Quotes

• "Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak."
  By: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Maxims
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• "Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew."
  By: Eugene Field, Wynken, Blynken and Nod
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• "A man cannot cast aside his childhood, though he run from it as he would the devil. He may make of it a burden under which to stumble and fall, or a shield to hide behind, or he may make of it a tool."
  By: Ann Fairbairn (pseudonym of Dorothy Tait), Five Smooth Stones
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• "My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy."
  By: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week, Fourth Day (bk. II)
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• "To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little one gather around me, To bid me good-night and be kissed; On, the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine of love on my face."
  By: Charles Monroe Dickinson, The Children
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• "They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; Those truants from home and from Heaven They have made me more manly and mild; And I know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child."
  By: Charles Monroe Dickinson, The Children
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• "A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life."
  By: Robertson Davies
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• "The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XII)
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• "A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 25)
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• "Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering And innocent."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings."
  By: Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sect. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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• "Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children
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• "Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 48)
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• "A child develops individuality long before he discovers taste."
  By: Erma Bombeck
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• "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."
  By: Bible, Psalms (ch. CXXVII, v. 3-5)
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