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“Children are one-third of our population, and all of our future.”
- Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." - George Santayana

"Children love those who have the time not only to teach them, but to have fun with them." - Rob Parsons, The Sixty Minute Father

"Your children's good judgment does not come from restraint, but from experience." - Kay Willis and Maryann Brinley, Are We Having Fun Yet?  The 16 Secrets of Happy Parenting

"Children aren't fooled.  They know we give time to the things we love."
- John Bradshaw (author)

"Kids spell love T-I-M-E." - John Crudele

"What's done to children, they will do to society." - Karl Menninger
 
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today." - Stacia Tauscher

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
- John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million." - Walt Streightiff

"If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." - Rachel Carson.

"Children are our most valuable natural resource." – Herbert Hoover

"Children have never been very good at listening to adults but they have never failed to imitate them." - James Baldwyn

"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much"
– Marian Wright Edelman
 

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