Mason Cooley Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

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  Children, Teaching, Character

• Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

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  Children, Parent, Literature

• Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

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  Children, Ignorance, Terror

• Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

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  Children, Parent, Trouble

• Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

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  Children, Parent, Doctrine

• As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

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  Children, Adults, Littles

• Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

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  Children, Power, Innocence

• One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

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  Beauty, Children, Said

• Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

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  Children, Adults, Use

• No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.

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  Children, Remember

• Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

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  Children, Joy, Parent

• As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

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  Happiness, Children, Believe

• Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

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  Children, Pain, Unhappiness

• An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

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  Children, Self, Adults

• Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

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  Children, Optimism, Century

• The children of childish parents age quickly.

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  Children, Parent, Age

• Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

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  Children, Class, Gentleman

• Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

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  Children, Parent, Natural

• As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

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  Children, Father, Childhood

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