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following were answers provided by 6th graders during history tests. Some of the best humour is in the misspelling
] Children make your life important. - Erma Bombeck Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes The best thing to spend on your children is your time. - Louise Hart Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson 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 As long as you know men are like children, you know everything. - Coco Chanel One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Unknown There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point. - Mark Zuckerberg When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. - Marian W Edelman Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? - Rod Blagojevich I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton 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 Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. - C S Lewis Grandparent: 1. One who knows that spanking is unnecessary; 2. The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. - George Foreman It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor It takes someone really brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child, and someone special to love someone more than herself. - Unknown Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language? One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey 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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