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Friday 24 February 2012

QUOTES ON CHILDREN- PART 1

                                                  
-         CHILDREN ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE NATURAL RESOURCE-HERBERT HOOVER
-          It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men- Frederick Douglass
-          A child educated only at school is an uneducated child- George Santayana
-          If you must hold yourself up to children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example-George Bernard Shaw
-          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
-          Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you-Robert Fulghum
-          For these are all our children, we will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become-James Baldwin
-          We worry about what a child will become tomorrow yet we forget that he is someone today-Stacia Tauscher
-          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
-          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
-          All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up-Pablo Picasso
-          If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much-Marian Wright Edelman
-          The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother-Theodore Hesburg
-          Wealth and children are the adornment of life-Koran
-          It takes a village to raise a child-African Proverb
-          One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade-Chinese proverb
-          The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids-Jill Bensley
-          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
-          Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth- two removes  from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age-Ambrose Bierce
-          To nourish children and raise them against odds is in anytime, anyplace, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons-Marilyn French
-          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
-          Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist-Michael Levine
-          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
-          We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children-Jimmy Carter
-          Children are the most wonderful audiences. What’s struck me most  is that they watch so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap-Emma Thompson
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