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“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“Men from children nothing differ.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.” Ronald Reagan, “State of the Union Address” - 27 January 1987

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“Now, all the general propositions favouring freedom I had either imbibed at my father’s knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek were suddenly embodied in the worshippers and their children and illuminated by their smiles.” Margaret Thatcher, “The Path to Power” - 1995

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“There is more to do. We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs.” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” - 29 January 2002

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

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