Children Quotes - Page 8

• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Solitude, Quality, World

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

  Pablo Casals

  Motivational, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

  P. D. James

  Inspirational, Kids, Childhood

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.23, Vintage

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Hands, Heaven

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• Beautiful eyes are those that show,
  Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow,
  Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

  Ellen Palmer Allerton

  Beautiful, Eye, Shows

  "Ellen P. Allerton's Walls of Corn, and Other Poems".

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• School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives!

  Lauren Bush

  School, Kids, Power

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• The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Mother, Stars, Spirit

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.206

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• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Years, Oil Painting

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Memories, Childhood, Forever

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• Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Responsibility, Our Generation

  Sir Richard Branson (2017). “Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography”, p.149, Random House

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• Children are what the mothers are.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mother

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• I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Opportunity, Giving

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• We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Respect, Memories, School

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• If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Inspirational, Family, Teacher

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• All children have creative power.

  Brenda Ueland

  Power, Creative, Creative Power

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• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Reading

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Expression, Play, Childhood

  Friedrich Fröbel (1912). “Froebel's Chief Writings on Education”

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• We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Mom

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fun, Real, Compassion

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

  Jim Trelease

  Family, Childhood, Parent

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• If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

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• The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

  Isadora Duncan

  Feet, Giving, Independence

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Honesty, Deception, Needs

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