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"Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is."
"I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children."
"There is no child left within me, none whatsoever."
"I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me."
"It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff."
"The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later."
"I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam."
"I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson."
"Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part."
"Boldness is a child of ignorance"
"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it."
"Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed."
"In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness."
"It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light."
"The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it."
"Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans."
"It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things."
"Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation"
"Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents."
"We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever."
