Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
The soul is healed by being with children.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.
I am fond of children - except boys.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.
Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.
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