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A child is a
beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with
possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
-- Lyman Abbott
1835-1922, American
Congregational Clergyman and Editor
As much as I
converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my
love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene,
for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President
of the USA
Of all the
needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one
that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a
hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable
God.
-- Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet,
Writer, Performer
Children's
talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
-- Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet,
Writer, Performer
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It's fun being
a kid.
-- Bradford Arthur Angier
The
countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks,
not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant
profile of their own.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
Even a minor
event in the life of a child is an event of that child's
world and thus a world event.
-- Gaston Bachelard
1884-1962, French Scientist,
Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Children have
never been very good at listening to their elders, but they
have never failed to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
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