Quotes about Children
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." – Oliver Wendell Holmes Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. "Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility" A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. "The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet" Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. "The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him." Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. "There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger" Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. "Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them." In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. "While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. "A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad" Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. "When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world." There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. "Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?" Back to inspirational quotes list Back to homepage
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