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You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Australian Aboriginal Elder

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Katharine Whitehorn

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.

The Talmud

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

e. e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mell Lazzarus

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote
US author (1924 - 1984)

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Mel Lazarus

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Don Marquis
US humorist (1878 - 1937)

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.

Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939)

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Maria Montessori
Italian educator & physician (1870 - 1952)

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless?We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action?No action.

Michael Jackson

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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