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"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

George W. Bush, President

"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life"

Sophocles, Author

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies"

Sophocles, Author

"Children are the keys of paradise"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion"

Terence, Playwright

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing"

Helen Keller, Author

"Education is not just about academics. It is about building character and helping children become their best selves"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Teaching is not just a job, it is a calling. It takes a special kind of person to work with children who have special needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Patience and persistence are the keys to helping children with special needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Children don't always understand their emotions. They need someone to help them navigate through the confusion"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Children are not problems to be solved. They are people to be loved"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"There are few successful adults who were not first successful children"

Alexander Chase, Journalist

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children"

William Penn, Leader

"Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness"

William Penn, Leader

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

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