Children

Joseph Heller Novelist

Children

"History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents."

Men Children War

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

Children

"Ask the young. They know everything."

Children Time Humorous

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

Children

"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."

Children Pain Wrinkles

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

Children

"Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning."

Children Eye Morning

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

Children

"To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure."

Children Parent Education

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Joshua Reynolds Painter

Children

"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."

Children Attitude Dance

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet

Children

"The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way."

Children Mother Daughter

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet

Children

"You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal."

Thinking Children Animal

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Joyce Giraud Model, Actress

Children

"My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation. I'm doing a very unique nail polish line, and finally, I'm developing a hair care line because people always ask me about my hair care system. I do a mask once a week that my grandma taught me how to make, so I want to share it with everyone."

Children Husband Latin

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Joyce Maynard Author, Journalist

Children

"I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures."

Men Children Eye

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Judith Martin Poet

Children

"The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way."

Children Inspirational Growing Up

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Judith Martin Poet

Children

"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children."

Children Parent Tone

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Julio Iglesias Singer, Songwriter

Children

"My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals."

Children Song Shows

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June Jordan Poet, Activist

Children

"To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify."

Children Differences Forever

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June Jordan Poet, Activist

Children

"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."

Children Names Motherhood

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June Jordan Poet, Activist

Children

"That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty."

Children Littles Hurt

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June Jordan Poet, Activist

Children

"The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."

Children Kids Father

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Jung Chang Author

Children

"When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family."

Children Party Parent

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Joyce Tenneson Photographer

Children

"If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden."

Children Book Photography

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

Children

"In bringing up a child, think of its old age."

Thinking Children Age

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