1. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.-Abigail Van Buren
2. I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!-David Vitter
3. Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.-Abraham Hicks
4. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.-Margaret Mead
5. If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.-Norman Douglas
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6. A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.-Jacob Abbott
7. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.-Henry Ward Beecher
8. Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.-Khaled Hosseini
9. Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.-Croft M. Pentz
10. Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.-Richard L. Evans
11. Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.-John W. Whitehead
12. Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.-Sophocles
13. Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.-Michael Jackson
14. Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.-Anne Sullivan
15. Children learn to smile from their parents.-Shinichi Suzuki
16. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-Pablo Picasso
17. Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.-Dr. Haim Ginott
18. Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.-W. E. B. Du Bois
19. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.-Franklin P. Jones
20. Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.-Wayne Dyer
21. Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.-Charlotte Bronte
22. Stay a child while you can be a child.-Stephen Sondheim
23. Children are the keys of paradise.-Eric Hoffer
24. Children, they’re the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world – any world. The very best of all.-Cornelia Funke
25. Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.-Wess Stafford
26. Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.-V.C. Andrews
27. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.-James A. Baldwin
28. Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder.-C.J. Heck
29. All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.-Ken Robinson
30. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.-Harold Hulbert
