Family & Children Quotes
Children are unpredictable.
You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
~Franklin Jones~
Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
~Pablo Picasso~
When I was a child, I could remember anything,
whether it happened or not.
~Mark Twain~
A torn jacket is soon mended;
but harsh words bruise the heart of a child.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~Clarence Darrow~
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~Clarence Darrow~
Each day of our lives we make deposits
in the memory banks of our children.
~Charles R. Swindoll~
Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what counts is best.
~Bob Talbert~
It now costs more to amuse a child
than it once did to educate his father.
~H.V. Prochnow~
Words which explode at an impressionable moment in the
life of a young child can shape an entire personality.
~Gordon MacDonald~
What's done to children, they will do to society.
~Karl Menninger~
In praising or loving a child,
we love and praise not that which is,
but that which we hope for.
~Goethe~
Children have a lot to contribute to our lives if given the chance.
~Ida Nelle Hollaway~
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~William James~
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
~Herbert Hoover~
A young child, a fresh, uncluttered mind, a world before him
--to what treasures will you lead him?
~Gladys M. Hunt~
A child should be loved for who he is, not for what he does.
~David Jeremiah~
The characteristic of a normal child is that
he doesn't act that way very often.
~Franklin P. Jones~
Children have more need of models than critics.
~Joseph Joubert~
Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present,
which very few of us do.
~Jean de la Bruyere~
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of
children that makes the heart too big for the body.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Kids don't care what you think, until they know you care.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~Maria Montessori~
The only things children wear out faster than shoes are parents and teachers.
Most children need more love than they deserve.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have
answers.
~J. J. Plomp~
You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones~
Kids will get into trouble, but it's human nature to get as close
to the hot stove as you can--and sometimes you touch it.
~John Wayne~
