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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #3
    George Eliot
    “The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #4
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #7
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #8
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #9
    Jim Morrison
    “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
    Jim MORRISON

  • #10
    Tom Waits
    “Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.”
    Tom Waits

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #13
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #14
    Carl Sandburg
    “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
    Carl Sandburg

  • #15
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #16
    Christopher Moore
    “Children see magic because they look for it.”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

  • #17
    Lisa Wingate
    “Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
    Lisa Wingate

  • #18
    Emilie Buchwald
    “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
    Emilie Buchwald

  • #19
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches

  • #20
    Isabel Allende
    “Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #21
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #22
    Bill Ayers
    “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
    Bill Ayers

  • #23
    Johnny Depp
    “When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
    Johnny Depp

  • #24
    Garrison Keillor
    “Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
    Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

  • #25
    “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
    Angela Schwindt

  • #26
    Plato
    “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
    Plato

  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #28
    Brian Andreas
    “I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”
    Brian Andreas

  • #29
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
    You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #30
    W.C. Fields
    “I like children. If they're properly cooked.”
    W. C. Fields



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