"CHILDREN QUOTES"

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank -

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

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 -

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
They seem not to notice us hovering, averting our eyes,
and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them
is never wasted.
- Garrison Keillor -

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 -

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 -

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
- Koran -

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 -

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 -

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

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain - attributed in error -

Having children makes you no more a parent
than having a piano makes you a pianist.
- Michael Levine -

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 -

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.
- Sidone 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.
- Sidone Gruenberg -

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