Children Quotes - Page 23

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

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Education

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Parenting, Giving

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Kids, God Love

  "The Old Curiosity Shop".

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Independent Bookstores, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Kids

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Dance, Kids, Dancing

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

  Martin Mull

  Funny, Kids, Underestimate

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• Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

  Alphonse Daudet

  People, Use

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• What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Parenting, Want, Becoming

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• I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Writing, Miracle, Adults

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Notebooks (1912)

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• You will always be your child's favorite toy.

  Vicki Lansky

  Mom, Parent, Toys

  "Trouble-free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents on the Go". Book by Vicki Lansky, 1991.

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• A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

  Francois Rabelais

  Fire, Vases, Youth

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• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Parenting, Should Have

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• I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

  Amy Grant

  People, My Children, Fascinating

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Native American, Parent, Pieces

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• The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

  Walt Disney

  Parenting, Evil, Important

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

  Maria Montessori

  Voice, Silence, Sensitive

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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

  Roddy Doyle

  Cutting, Adults, Sometimes

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• Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Pain, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, Library of Alexandria

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• Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.

  Keith Haring

  Color, Hatred, Greed

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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