A characteristic
of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often. - Unknown
A child building
a sandcastle is not "working hard". It doesn’t seem to him to be a
task. It simply fills his imagination at the time it’s going on,
and anything else is an irritant. - Jonathan Miller
A child is a
beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue
and vice - but as yet unstained. - Lyman Abbott
A child is an uncut diamond. - Austin
O’Malley
A child is going to remember who was there, not what you spent on them. Kids outgrow toys and outfits, but they never outgrow time and love. - Unknown
A child is not a
vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. - Francois Rabelais
A child who is protected from all
controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every
germ. The infection, when it comes – and
it will come – may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief
system. - Jane Smiley
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on
which every passer-by leaves a mark. - Chinese
Saying
A child’s world is fresh and new
and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for
most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and
awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. - Unknown
Before children
can learn how to resolve conflict, they must empty their cup with respect to
believing that aggression should always be met with aggression. - Terrence Webster-Doyle
By loving them
for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than
the sum of their accomplishments. - Eileen
Kennedy-Moore
Children are a comfort to men because the youngsters cannot contradict
them. - Abraham Miller
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of
every attempt to teach them good manners. - Grenville
Kleiser
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.’s if possible. - R. D. Laing
Children are poor men’s riches. - English Proverb
Children are remarkable for their
intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the
clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. - Aldous Huxley
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not
covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every
question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but
too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as
inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or
toys. - Charles de Lint
Children are the great gamble. From the moment they are born, our
helplessness increases. Instead of being ours to mould and shape after our best
knowledge and endeavour, they are themselves. - Josephine Hart
Children aren’t
colouring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favourite colours. - Khaled Hosseini
Children
begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them;
sometimes they forgive them. -
Oscar Wilde
Children have neither a past nor a
future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. - Unknown
Children
have never been any good at listening to their elders, but they have never
failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin
Children learn more from what you
are than what you teach. - W. E. B DuBois
Children
must be taught how to think, not what to think. -
Margaret Mead
Children
naturally live in the moment and they allow that moment to be what it
is; magical and beautiful in every way. - Unknown
Children need
models more than they need critics. - Joseph Joubert
Children
reinvent your world for you. - Susan
Sarandon
Children,
like animals, use all their senses to discover the
world. - Eudora
Welty
Children,
no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To
them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will
be fine when they grow up does no good at all. - John Saul
Children's
games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when
they play. - Montaigne
Children’s
talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya
Angelou
Do
not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to
it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to
discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- Plato
Don’t handicap your children by making
their lives easy. - Robert Heinlein
Don’t limit a child to your own
learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabbinical Saying
Each
day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children. - Charles R. Swindoll
Every
child is an artist. The problem is
to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo
Picasso
Every
child lives up to the expectation you have for him. - Kevin Leman
Every
word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of
character. - Hosea Ballou
Having
children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a
pianist. - Michael Levinve
How
will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a
man. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
I don't believe in playing down to children, either
in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile
flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should
have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have
to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. - Walt Disney
I
have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to
keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to
delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but
keeping their minds occupied will. - Walt Disney
If
a child is to keep alive 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. -
Rachael
Carson
If
children grew up according to early indications, we should have
nothing but geniuses.
- Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
If
from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood
to act as devils. - P. D. James
If
there is anything we wish to change in
the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not
something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl
Gustav Jung
If
we would amend the world, we should mend ourselves; and teach our
children to be, not what we are, but what they should be. - William
Penn
In every real man a child is
hidden that wants to play. - Friedrich Nietzsche
It
is a wise father that knows his own child. - William
Shakespeare
It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and
heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a
little less cruel and heartless. - L. R.
Knost
It is important to communicate to children about
what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the
truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take
time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved
with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves
these days in all sorts of strange ways. - James
Redfield
It is not what you do for your
children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make
them successful human beings. - Ann
Landers
It
takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world
full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any
wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. - Louisa May
Alcott
Kids
... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't
even there simply because of how they see themselves. - Walt
Mueller
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what
you are. - Jim Henson
Let
children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If
parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much
censorship because we won’t have as much fear. -
Judy Blume
Look at the world through a
child’s eyes and see if that would not bring a little zest for living back into
your life. - Unknown
Lord
knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown
to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not
the words to make us remember. - Margaret Drabble
Love
not your children unequally; or if you do, show it not, lest you make
the one proud, and the other envious, and both fools. -
Wellins Calcott
Many
children, many cares; no children, no felicity. - Christian
Nestell Bovee
Men
are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than
of their children. - William Penn
Most
children feel immortal – they have no sense that they're ever going
to die. For a child, even growing up is something that's barely
comprehensible. - John Saul
No child is born a
criminal: no child is born an angel: he’s just born. - Sir Sydney
Smith
No
kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to
find it. And then encourage it. -
Robin Sharma
Only
a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed
all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't
expect to see. - Douglas Adams
Only
where children gather is there any real chance of fun. - Mignon
McLaughlin
Our
greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt
Disney
Parents
of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one,
will find their children as enchanting as they do. -
Barbara Walters
Pretty
much all the honest truth-telling
there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Screaming
at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s
tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s
not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience
for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny. -
Ben
Stein
Small
children give you a headache, big children a heartache. - Russian
Proverb
Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They
turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially
deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for
them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults
listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off. - F. Paul Wilson
Spend
time with children. Learn more about laughter, spontaneity, curiosity,
acceptance, resilience, trust, determination, and your imagination. They are
here to teach us.
- Unknown
That
energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which
afterwards
makes him a manager of life. - Henry
Ward Beecher
The
best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes
of their time each day. - M.
Grundler
The
children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly
become just like them – thus preserving the system. - Quentin
The
children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. -
Socrates
The conscience of children is
formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are
the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. - Jean Paul Richter
The
deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received
from their parents. - Christopher
Paolini
The
family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of
culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy,
assurance, and emotional refuelling
that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater
world and to become all that he can be. - Marianne
E. Neifert
The
finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make
its own way, completely on its own feet. - Isadora
Duncan
The
first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a
needful task is its first lesson in graft. -
Philip
Wylie
The greatest gifts you can give your children are … the roots of
responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley
The
greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren
is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life,
but rather a legacy of character and faith. -
Billy
Graham
The
important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as
that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John
Lubbock
The
more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more
devastating future disappointments will be. - Fred
G. Gosman
The most potent
muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive
children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on
work. And I think there is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according
to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education. - John Locke
The
older I get, the more I marvel at the wisdom of
children. - David
Morgan
The
soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor
Dostoevsky
The
way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - Peggy
O'Mara
This
is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that
at times you will just lose your mind. Period. - Anne
Lamott
This
is the reason why
mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that
they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that
they are their own. - Aristotle
Those
who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who
produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living
well. - Aristotle
Thus
parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the
principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to
taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the
fountain. - John
Locke
To
lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could
never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon
disappeared. The birds became silent. - Alexader
McCall Smith
Toddlers
who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their
resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other
people’s needs. They can become self-centred, demanding, and
difficult to like or to be with. - Alicia
F. Lieberman
Too
often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to
solve. -
Roger
Lewin
Train your child as if you were
preparing a prince for his future reign, for he will grow up to be one of the
forces that shapes the future of mankind. - Unknown
We
know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to
become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the
arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If
our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something
wrong with the system, not the child. - William
G. Defoore
We
should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing
to see our children do. - Brigham
Young
We teach children to save their money. As an
attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But
it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues
of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is
better than to teach him to save. - Henry
Ford
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that the is someone today. -
Stacia Tauscher
What
children say, they have heard at home. - West
African Proverb
What
we instil in our children will be the foundation upon which they
build their future. - Steve
Maraboli
Whatever you teach a child,
whether it is through your words or through your actions, lives on forever in
his or her heart. -
Unknown
When a child can be brought to
tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no
chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you
can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. -
Horace Mann
When people talk about wanting to "have
children someday," what they really mean is that they want babies.
Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old
trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they
really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff
is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff. - Paul Reiser
While
we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us
what life is all about. - Angela
Schwindt
You
can do anything with children if only you play with them. - German
Proverb
You cannot fail to parent your children at home, then expect teachers to work miracles with them in the classroom. - Unknown
Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson
