Quotes About Children

"Every day your child should bring home
Love in their heart,
Knowledge in their mind;
And nothing necessary in their hands"

Submitted by Christi

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Bricks and mortar make a house,
but the laughter of children makes a home.

-- Irish Proverb

Submitted by Christi

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I promise you everyday your children will learn something:
Some days they will bring it home in their hands,
Some days they will bring it home in their heads,
And some days they will bring it home in their hearts.

Valery Welk

Submitted by Christi

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"I am a Provider.
A Provider is someone who leads.
There is no magic here.
I do not walk on water.
I do not part the sea.
I just love children."

Submitted by Christi

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"You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have, for instance."

Franklin P. Jones

Submitted by Jean

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"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow
but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work."

- Unknown

Submitted by Jean

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The difference between adults and children
is that adults don't ask questions.

-- American Proverb

Submitted by Christi

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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are no seven wonders of the world
in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

~Walt Streightiff

Submitted by Jean

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There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs
more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

~Frank A. Clark

Submitted by Jean

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The only thing worth stealing
is a kiss from a sleeping child.

~Joe Houldsworth

Submitted by Jean

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Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead
ought to tell a child to go to bed.

~Robert Gallagher

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Every baby needs a lap.

~Henry Robin

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Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually
repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

~Author Unknown

Submitted by Jean

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Babies are always more trouble than you thought
- and more wonderful.

~Charles Osgood

Submitted by Jean

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A man never stands as tall as when he
kneels to help a child.

~Knights of Pythagoras

Submitted by Jean

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Every child comes with the message that God
is not yet discouraged of man.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Submitted by Jean

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Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

Submitted by Jean

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

~Author Unknown

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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

~Harold Hulbert

Submitted by Jean

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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today.

~Stacia Tauscher

Submitted by Jean

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God sent children for another purpose than merely to
keep up the race, to enlarge our hearts; and to make
us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections;
to give our souls higher aims; to call out
all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion;
and to sing around our firesides bright faces, happy
smiles and loving, tender hearts.

Mary Botham Howitt

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I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love
and duty but as a profession that was fully as
interesting and challenging as any honorable
profession in the world, and one that demanded
the best I could bring to it.

Rose Kennedy

Submitted by Jean

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What would I want engraved on my headstone
for posterity? --- “Mother.”

Jessica Lange

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Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking
around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

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The most important thing that parents can teach
their children is how to get along without them.

Frank A. Clark

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

Submitted by Jean

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The most important thing a father can do for
his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

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Ever notice that a human baby doesn't walk
until it's tall enough to reach a parent's hand?

Submitted by Christi

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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege,
than the raising of the next generation.

C. Everett Koop

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School days can be the happiest days of our life...
providing the children are old enough to go.

Submitted by Sherry

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The secret of dealing successfully with a child
is not to be its parent.

Submitted by Sherry

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The joy of motherhood: what a woman experiences
when all the children are finally in bed.

Submitted by Sherry

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Just when a woman thinks her work is done...
she becomes a grandmother.

Submitted by Sherry

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"To bring up a child in the way he should go,
travel that way yourself once in a while."

- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-1885

Submitted by Jean

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Remember that your children are not your own,
but are lent to you by the Creator.

-- Native American Proverb

Submitted by Christi

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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

-- Carl Sandburg

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The laughter of a child is the light of a house.

-- African Proverb

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The great cathedral space which was childhood. -- Virginia Woolf

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