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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

—Ann Richards

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God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture.

—Luther A. Weigle

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I am all for singing. If I had had children, I should have hounded them into choirs and choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

—Sylvia Townsend Warner

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The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

—Henry Morton Stanley

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

—Bill Watterson

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If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing, I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

—Randall Jarrell

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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

—George Eliot

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace.

—Linda Hogan

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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

—Nancy Friday

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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

—John J. Plomp

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