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following were answers provided by 6th graders during history tests. Some of the best humour is in the misspelling
] Adults are just obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert It's never too late for a happy childhood. - Gloria Steinem Raising kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park. - Unknown A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies With kids, the days are long, but the years are short. - John Leguizamo There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children. - George Burns If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. - Danish Proverb Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. - Golda Meir I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment. - Doug Larson Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment in the answers they seek. - Unknown I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you came along. - Groucho Marx Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates Here lies my past. Good-bye I have kissed it; Thank you, kids. I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? - Rod Blagojevich The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. - F Scott Fitzgerald The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. - Tom Wolfe You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon You know your kids are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P.J. O'Rourke There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. - Alex Haley Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G K Chesterton see also Aging, History & Trivia Sections Attention Span Babysitting Kids Eat Your Vegetables Falling Picture Help For Dead Children OCD Ball Pit Redneck Time Out Unattended Children |
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