Quotes For Children
These cute quotes for children will have you laughing, thinking, enjoying, pondering, and wishing you had kids again if they have already grown and moved out. Some children return to the nest and you can enjoy or not these adult children returning for another adventure.
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déja vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult. Eugene Ionesco
It takes a village to raise a child. African Proverb
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me. Anna Quindlen
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Jane Nelsom
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo C. Rosten
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert
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
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
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
Children so innocently and openly reflect what they have picked up from parents, guardians and environment. JoAnn Janson, Define Yourself and Discover Your Destiny! Encouragement gives children a boost of motivation. Sal Severe, Ph.D., How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!
Try not to teach your fears to your kids. Introduce your children to what's possible. Robin Sharma, The Greatness Guide
Obviously we all love grandchildren because they represent the new beginnings of life. Tina Sloan Changing Shoes
Regardless of how many difficulties our children have, real or imagined, they also have many positive accomplishments and are many good things. Anne Wilsdon Schaef, Mediations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much
Teach your chld to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Maxims
Better to be driven out from among men than to be dislike of children. R. H. Dana, The Idle Man
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life. Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village
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