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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx 4.6429 average rating Rate this Quote
"Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards." Author Unknown 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Monday's child is fair in face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child works hard for its living;And a child that's born on a Christmas day,Is fair and wise, good and gay." Author Unknown 4.0500 average rating Rate this Quote
"A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often." Author Unknown 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer." Author Unknown 4.5714 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." Author Unknown 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What is a home without children? Quiet." Henny Youngman 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again." Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"A child is a curly dimpled lunatic." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children are all foreigners." Ralph Waldo Emerson 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children." W. Somerset Maugham 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up." Christopher Morley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult." Fran Lebowitz Rate this Quote
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates 4.8235 average rating Rate this Quote
"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?" Albert Camus 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote


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