Children Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Innocence, Family Values

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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  Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

  Henry Fielding

  Hilarious, Witty, Doing Nothing

  Henry Fielding (1780). “The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”, p.71

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• Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

  Education, Reality, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Playing Games, Self, Personality

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  Carl Jung

  Knowledge, Parenting, Reality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

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• If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Family Love, Thinking, Live In The Moment

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• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Parent, Childhood

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Kindness

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  Garrison Keillor

  Family, Single Mom, Teaching

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

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• A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Light, Childhood, Growth

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• Children blessings seem, but torments are.

  Thomas Otway

  Blessing, Torment, Seems

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Thomas Otway”, p.131

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• Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Wise, Prayer, Keys

  "Songs of Summer". Book by Richard Henry Stoddard, p. 113, 1856.

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• A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value

  Caroline Norton

  Beautiful, Prayer, Flower

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1851). “Stuart of Dunleath: a story of the present time”, p.37

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• We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Real, Fighting, Voice

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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  When I hear people talk about juggling or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy because sacrifice infers that there was something better to do than the thing - than being with your children.

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, Sacrifice, People

  "Chris Rock On The Funny Business Of Finding Success". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Educational, Kids

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

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• Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

  George Carlin

  Faith, Learning, Doubt

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• The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  William P. Young

  Healing, Healed You, Soul

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