Children Quotes

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  All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

  Magic Johnson

  Relationship, Basketball, Hope

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hope, Presidential, Abuse

  United States Committee for UNICEF, July 25, 1963.

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• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Chinese, Life Is Like

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• We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Educational, Future, Parenting

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• Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Teaching, Parenting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Expression, Play, Childhood

  Friedrich Fröbel (1912). “Froebel's Chief Writings on Education”

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• Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Positive, Beauty, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Kailash Satyarthi from Jul 09, 2015

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• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Parenting, Important, Amazing Parents

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Single Mom

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• 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.

  Pablo Casals

  Miracle, World, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Educational

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, World, Excitement

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Kids, Parenting, Criticism

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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• Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Kids

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• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hovering, Single Parent, Inspirational Parenting

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

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• ...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

  Carol Bellamy

  Humanity, Interest, Serving

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.88, Random House

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• Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  God, Baby, Newborn Child

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Commitment

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Friday, Mother

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Education

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Family, Inspiring, Success

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