Daily Digest #311

Children are a heritage from the Lord. —Psalm 127:3

Quotes About Children

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

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

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

If our way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck

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

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones

Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood

While we try to teach our children all about life,

Our children teach us what life is all about.

~Angela Schwindt

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault. com

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller

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

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

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglass

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

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. ~Annie Sullivan

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. ~Bill Crosby

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. ~Chinese Proverb

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ~Clarence Darrow

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~Harry S. Truman

Children are our most valuable natural resource. ~Herbert Hoover

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. ~Hodding Carter

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? ~Jane Nelson

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. ~John J. Plomp

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. ~John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ~Kahlil Gibran

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. ~Leo Rosten

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

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia Maria Child

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. If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. ~Marian Wright Edelman

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. ~Marilyn French

Before you were conceived I wanted you

Before you were born I loved you

Before you were here an hour I would die for you

This is the miracle of life. ~Maureen Hawkins

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~Pablo Picasso

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.

Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.

Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.

Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it. ~Pamela Glenconner

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Rabbinical saying

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

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

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

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

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

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

A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm. ~Victoria Wagner

It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~William Shakespeare