Children Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

  Bill Cosby

  Giving, House, African American

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

  James Dobson

  Teenager, Real, Gun

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Kids, Parenting

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Two, Childhood

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

  Carol Bellamy

  Education, War, School

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• Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Childhood, Essentials, Fiery

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Failure, Teaching, Way

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• A child miseducated is a child lost.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Should Have, Childhood, Intellectual

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Airplane, Class

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Mothers Day

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• Never have children, only grandchildren.

  Gore Vidal

  Humorous, Kids, Grandmother

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny Inspirational, Parenting, White

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• I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

  Bill Cosby

  Baby, Real, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Bill Cosby from Nov 09, 2009

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• All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

  Michio Kaku

  Kids, Deep Thought, Society

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  Carl Karcher

  Money, Pain, Parent

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• Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

  Wess Stafford

  Compassion, Encounters, Divine

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.9, WaterBrook

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• God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Mother, War

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Health

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• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, Fighting, Parent

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, School, Organization

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• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  Erma Bombeck

  Time, Views, Years

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• As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.

  Ted Danson

  School, Mean, Kids

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