Children
Quotes - Don't handicap your Children
“Don't
handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
―
Robert A. Heinlein
“Children
see magic because they look for it.”
―
Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
“It's
never too late to have a happy childhood.”
―
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
“Do
not ask your children
to
strive for extraordinary lives.
Such
striving may seem admirable,
but
it is the way of foolishness.
Help
them instead to find the wonder
and
the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show
them the joy of tasting
tomatoes,
apples and pears.
Show
them how to cry
when
pets and people die.
Show
them the infinite pleasure
in
the touch of a hand.
And
make the ordinary come alive for them.
The
extraordinary will take care of itself.”
―
William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
“It's
the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
―
Frank Warren
“The
only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
―
Karl Lagerfeld
“I
think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do
things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life
on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people,
let them believe more in themselves.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Your
children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the
heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach
them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you
are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
―
Lisa Wingate
“Grown
ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
―
Roald Dahl
“Young
people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do
something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. ”
―
Rick Riordan
“We
spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the
rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
―
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Through
the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did
- that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions,
whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in
the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not
designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just
that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
―
Debra Ginsberg
“Anyone
who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
―
Fred Rogers
“Schizoid
behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we
adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
―
Stephen King
“In
a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible,
benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am
convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
―
N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
“Do
not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to
evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
―
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“We
cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for
the future.”
―
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches
“Children
are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
―
Emilie Buchwald
“When
kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to
hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They
vomit.”
―
Johnny Depp
