Children Quotes - Page 20

• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Running, Dust

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.576, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

  Eudora Welty

  Artist, Animal, Use

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• In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

  Michael Jackson

  Light, And Love, Way

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• I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

  A. A. Milne

  Adventure, Piglet, Mets

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• A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Baby, Parenting

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• Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

  Judy Collins

  Speaks Out, Use, Behalf

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• Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.

  Richard Farson

  Real, Views, Law

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• The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

  Robert Breault

  World, Our Lives

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

  Khalil Gibran

  Archer, Arrows, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Reality, Bitterness

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Parents and Children'

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• Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

  Lisa See

  Life, Baby, Parenting

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.150, A&C Black

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• Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Flower, Men

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Fever, Youth

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• Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

  Glennon Melton

  Inspiration, Kids, Parenting

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• If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

  Lucy Stone

  Mother, Guilt, Mouths

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Self, People, Rude

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• The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Mistake, Teaching

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.7, Vintage

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• If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Years, Awe And Wonder

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

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• Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

  Andy Andrews

  Kids, Parenting, Greatness

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

  Edward Eggleston

  Teacher, Jesus, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Pet, Dachshunds

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

  Anatole Broyard

  Relationship, Obedience, Expected

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• How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

  Charles de Lint

  People, House, Trying

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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