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Jai Ganesh

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Children Quotes - III

Children Quotes - III

1. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin

2. The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' - Maria Montessori

3. Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. - Walt Disney

4. There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

5. We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock. - Kevin Costner

6. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

7. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. - Francis Bacon

8. The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. - Mario Puzo.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.