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  The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

  John Fischer

  Topics in Children, Effort

  Tags in Equality, Potential
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  Don’t just teach your children to read…Teach them to question what they read.Teach them to question everything.

  George Carlin

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Teach, Read
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  We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Really

• My roles are in some way like children to me. You don’t ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

  Diane Lane

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Shoe

• Behind every benefit we enjoy as God’s children is his gracious act of justification.

  Rick Warren

  Topics in Children, Inspirational, Life

• Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Children, Love

• Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Topics in Children, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Dreams, Listening, Cute, Hope
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  Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Happy
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  A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

  Unknown

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Truly, Hands

• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wonder, Inspiration

• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

  John Adams

  Topics in Art, Children, Father, Politics

  Tags in Mathematics, War, Poetry, Philosophy

• Anything can become a children’s book if you give it to a child…Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Books

• I didn’t have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don’t, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Pain, Forgive, Happiness

• Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

  Unknown

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Reading, Parenting
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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art, Children

  Tags in How, Up, Once, Ground, Grow, Every, Artist, Problem, Remain

• Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren’t sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation’s best days are still ahead.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Dreams, Nights

• We strive to make our children independent because we have nothing to offer them. But what is their independence if not chaos? What we must do is make them entirely dependent, dependent upon the dictates of the good. And we must make ourselves examples of that good to them so that dependence upon us is the greatest gift they know; so that in being dependent upon us, they are independent of evil. If we do this, our children will feel, not that they are dependent upon us, but that they depend upon us.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Children

• Along with being fathers to our children, we must be fathers to the child within us.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Children

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Parents, Serious

• When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don’t like.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Topics in Children