Children Quotes

"Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you." Daniel Raeburn

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision." Denis Waitley

"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others." Haim Ginott

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

"It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation." John Gray

"...may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home..." from the song "Forever Young", sung by Rod Stewart

"...may good fortune be with you and may your guiding light be strong..." from the song "Forever Young", sung by Rod Stewart

"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day." Orlando A. Battista

"Children have more need of models than of critics." Joseph Joubert

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

"To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself." Chinese Proverb

"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from." Anne Tyler

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." Mary MacCracken

"If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart." Mother Clara Hale

"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less." Alex Haley

"Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it." Harold Hulbert

"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late." Betty Ford

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." Napoleon Hill

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings." Brian Tracy

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them." Lady Bird Johnson

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

"There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong." Robert Gardner

"If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals." Lillian Carter

"There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes." Dr. Who

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character." Hosea Ballou

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us." J. B. Priestley

"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him." Dr. Henker

"If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die." Moroccan Proverb

"Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring." Author Unknown

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision." Aldous Huxley

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
Denis Waitley

"I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself." Elizabeth Fry

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

"Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." Pearl Bailey

"The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them." Steven Seagal

"...when you finally fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well, for all the wisdom of a lifetime no one can ever tell..." from the song "Forever Young", sung by Rod Stewart

"Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree." Marian Wright Edelman

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children." Holbrook Jackson

"Our children are not going to be just "our children" they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren." Mary Steichen Calderone

"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation." C. Everett Koop

"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time." Chinese Proverb

"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that. " Walt Disney

"Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment." John Bradshaw

"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." American Proverb

"There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity." Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." Roger Lewin

"My greatest accomplishment, and my greatest pride and joy are my children. They truly are my greatest success. They have inspired me in all aspects of my life." Catherine Pulsifer