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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
(Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century), U.S. editor, writer. Family and Politics, ch. 3 (1983).)
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In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not children's lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945).
Written in 1943.)
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Children must eventually train their own children, and any impoverishment of their impulse life, for the sake of avoiding friction, must be considered a possible liability affecting more than one lifetime
(Erik H. Erikson (20th century), U.S. psychoanalyst. Childhood and Society, ch. 8 (1950).)
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What a wise and good parent will desire for his own children a nation must desire for all children.
(Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW), H.M.S.O. (1931).)
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
(Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. Mme. Gaston in a letter to Mme. De l'Estorade, in Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées), in La Presse (1841-1842), Souverain (1842), included in the Scènes de la Vie Privée in the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971).)
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You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
(Dudley Nichols, U.S. screenwriter. Jean Renoir. Major Von Keller (Walter Slezak), This Land Is Mine (1943).)
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Who shall remember my house, where shall live my children's
children
When the time of sorrow is come?
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. A Song for Simeon (l. 13-14). . .
New Oxford Book of Christian Verse, The. Donald Davie, ed. (1981) Oxford University Press.)
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Over the water come
Children from homes and children's parks
Who speak on a finger and thumb,
And the masked, headless boy.
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Then was my neophyte.")
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
(Barbara Walters (20th century), U.S. journalist. How to Talk With Practically Anybody about Practically Anything, ch. 4 (1970).)
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Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.
(Beatrix Campbell (b. 1947), British journalist. Unofficial Secrets, ch. 2 (1988).)
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