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Children Quotes - Page 700

We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.

Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.69, Best Books on

A generation of children has been betrayed.

"Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

"The last chance election for Britain". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.294

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Jack L. Capps, William Faulkner (1979). “Light in August: a concordance to the novel”