Children Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

  Christian Scriver

  Sight, Might, Praise

  Christian Scriver (1860). “Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.259

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• Children are our most valuable natural resource.

  Herbert Hoover

  Christian, Baby, Natural

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Issues, Adults

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.51, Vintage

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• In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Praise

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Tests, Literacy

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• Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.

  Francis Quarles

  Understanding, Frost, Lessons

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• Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Fun, Eye

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.79, Bethany House

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• Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Light, Rose, Childhood

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• Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Childhood, Enchantment

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• D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Struggle, Looks

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2171, eBookIt.com

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• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Book, Reading, Kids

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• In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Kids, Angel

  George Eliot (2014). “Silas Marner”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

  Margaret Fuller

  Home, Differences, Coming Home

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.419, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!

  David Vitter

  Dream, Believe, Compassion

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• Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Teacher, Years, Giving

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• In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

  Horace Mann

  Running, Race, Trying

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.222

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• Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

  Princess Diana

  Kindness, Parenting, Inspire

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• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mother, Home

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• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Education, Single Mom

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• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Family

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

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Humorous, Food

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

  Ray Lyman Wilbur

  Christian, Compassion, Intriguing

  United States. Department of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, William Atherton DuPuy (1932). “Conservation in the Department of the Interior”, p.166

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• Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

  Paula Poundstone

  Growing Up, Kids, Ideas

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