Children Quotes

• Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hope, Presidential, Abuse

  United States Committee for UNICEF, July 25, 1963.

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• I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

  Tori Spelling

  Want, Great Relationship, Great Family

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• People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

  Tori Spelling

  Kids, Long, People

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• If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Happiness, Memories, Years

  Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1892). “Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic”

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• So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Society, Tangible

  "Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

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• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Knowledge, Speaking Well

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• One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Giving, Adults

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• I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.

  Mike Candrea

  Softball, Education, Kids

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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

  Christian Inspirational, Trying, Helping

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Family, Parenting, Childhood

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  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

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Kids

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• We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Educational, Future, Parenting

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• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Chinese, Life Is Like

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• Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Teaching, Parenting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Single Mom

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mistake, Lying, Humorous

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Inspirational, Parent, Suspicious

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• 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

  Respect, Teacher, Educational

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Parenting, Arrows, Archery

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Family, Success

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