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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

4.1 · 24 votes

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

3.0 · 53 votes

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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William Wordsworth

PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

4.7 · 34 votes

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I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

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PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves a

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WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

3.7 · 49 votes

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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

MusicianGerman1895 · 19th century

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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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Vincent van Gogh

PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

3.2 · 62 votes

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

4.0 · 44 votes

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everyt

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PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

5.0 · 39 votes · 166 reads

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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century
5.0 · 25 votes · 180 reads
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