Children Quotes - Page 3

• If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Ifs

  "Reading Between the Lines of Arne Duncan’s ‘Major’ Speech" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Educational

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• At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

  Ellen Key

  Real, Rose, Thorns

  The Century of the Child Ch. 3

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• The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child.

  Thomas Berry

  Imagination, Mind, World

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• To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

  Robert Breault

  Childhood, Wonder, Worst

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• In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Childhood, Noses

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• It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

  Betty Ford

  Years, Feelings, Too Late

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

  Mary Calderone

  Husband, People, Wife

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• As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

  Maria Konnikova

  Our World, Information, Speed

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Children see magic because they look for it.

  Christopher Moore

  Life, Imagination Creativity, Magic

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Reverence, Educate

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  Haim Ginott

  Nice, Self Esteem, Kids

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• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Forever, Understanding, Mathematics

  Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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• Stay a child while you can be a child.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Inspirational, Kids

  Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hope, Eye, World

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  Bruce Barton

  Relationship, Birthday, Daughter

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

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• Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

  Muriel Spark

  Family, Inspirational Life, Coping Mechanisms

  The Comforters (1957) ch. 6

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• Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

  John Bradshaw

  Relationship, Reality, World

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.55, Bantam

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Growing Up, Parenting

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• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Denis Waitley

  Family, Parenting, Giving

  "Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Real

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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