Children
Quotes - Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need
“Children are living beings -
more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around
themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and
development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world
whose guiding spirit is personal love.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
“It is a fundamental truth
that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No,
not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training
outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on
the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s
influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places
an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to
work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a
child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels
love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness.
How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when
neglected!”
― Ezra Taft Benson
“You're the funniest thing
she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.”
― Fredrik Backman, A
Man Called Ove
“Dance. Dance for the joy and
breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still
somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood.
Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of
childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we
must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it
enough?”
― Richard Paul Evans,
The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope
“We tend to forget at times
that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If
we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can
they?”
― Sharon Kay Penman,
The Sunne in Splendour
“What do your parents know,
about surviving? ”
― Lemony Snicket, The
End
“Anything can become a
children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and
worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”
― Orson Scott Card
“Why children?' he asked.
'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful,
and Nature knows it.”
― E.M. Forster,
Maurice
“Beyond all sciences,
philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly
all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”
― Criss Jami,
Killosophy
“A rebel adult often seems
like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima,
Battery, Electric Personality
“Anybody who hates dogs and
babies can't be all bad.”
― Leo Rosten
“I believe that children in
this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does
not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor
do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s
reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never
talk down to, or draw down to, children.
(from
the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)”
― Barbara Cooney,
Chanticleer and the Fox
“Gin a body meet a body
Coming
thro' the rye,
Gin
a body kiss a body—
Need
a body cry?”
― Robert Burns
“God created every man to be
free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong,
happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with
freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. Nobody can
turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of
anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong,
unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never
created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never
told you hurt or kill another, man did. And in the end, when God asks you:
"Who told you to kill one of my children?"
And
you tell him, "My leader."
He
will then ask you, "And are THEY your GOD?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up
and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If you make me lunch,"
he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids
come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares
about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?”
― Laura Schroff, An
Invisible Thread
“Healthy children will not
fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
― Erik H. Erikson
“The idea of not being a kid
anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of
boys and girls into the fray of men and women, and expected to function as a
grown-up when I never functioned very well as a kid.”
― Kelley York, Suicide
Watch
“The very old and the very
young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left
alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning
and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.”
― Elizabeth Goudge
“Children are the world's
most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
― John F. Kennedy
“You should listen to even
the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.”
― Crystal Marcos
“Sometimes what we don't want
is actually what we need.”
― Nikolas Lee, The
Iron-Jawed Boy
“It's all your fault,
Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so
selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!'
'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.”
― Gerald Durrell, My
Family and Other Animals
