Children Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Dunca
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
Red Skelton
To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
Sidonie Gruenberg
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Marian Wright Edelman
It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.
Bureau of Social Hygiene study
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
William Stafford
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Sidonie Gruenberg
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Panel for the Promotion of Child Health
I am fond of children – except boys.
Lewis Carroll
There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A. Clark
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.
Bible: Genesis
But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them. Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Bible: Mark
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice – especially when she’s taking a nap.
Anonymous
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical
If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.
Marian Wright Edelman
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Edgar W. Howe
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
St. Francis Xavier
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
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