
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

What is a home without children? Quiet.

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

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.

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

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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

Children are the hands by which we take hold of the heaven.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for sad souls.

Our children change us.. whether they live or not.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

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.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

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

Children make you want to start life over.

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

Give a little love to a child and you will get a great deal back.

Children have more need of models, than of critics.

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

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

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