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Read Interesting Quotes About Children. They Are Our Future

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Children bring innocent charm and, if yours are like mine, a whole lot of mischief to boot. If you have kids at home, there is a chance that you might miss out on appreciating the way they enrich your life. Here are some quotes about children that will get you thinking.

Harry S. Truman
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A. P. Gouthey
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

Abigail Van Buren
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Haim Ginott
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Zig Ziglar
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Heraclitus
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Emma Goldman
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Cary Grant
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Confucius
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

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