There is only one child in the world; and that child's name is ALL CHILDREN. -- Carl Sandburg
Children are the dreams we send to a future that we will never see. -- Unknown
Once you see a child's self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more. -- Dr. Wayne Dyer
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. -- Emma Goldman
There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -- Graham Green
Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time. --Joan Baez
Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end. -- Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
In bringing up a child, think of its old age. -- Joseph Joubert
Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
No man searches more passionately for a dream woman than the child who grows up motherless." - Nandor Fodor in The Search For the Beloved (1949)
Anthropologist Ashley Montagu recently asked a room full of doctors and nurses how to determine lack of love from an x-ray. No one answered. He then explained that one can see dense lines in the bones caused by lack of growth that occurs when a child is unloved." -- Bernie S. Siegel M. D. in Mothering, Spring, 1990
The first real choice a human baby must make is whether to trust or mistrust other humans. This basic trust-versus-mistrust stage is the first building block upon which all later love relationships are formed." -- Dr. Ken Magid and Carole McKelvey in High Risk: Children Without a Conscience
The. . . unquestioning love of our parents is so deeply rooted that hardly anything can destroy it, and certainly not insight into the truth. It is grounded in the natural need to love and be loved. -- Dr. Alice Miller in Paths of Life
Mothering does not come naturally. Mothering the way you were mothered comes naturally. -- Martha Welch, M.D. in Holding Therapy
Give me the first six years of a child's life and you can have the rest."
-- Jesuit maxim
The myth of happy childhood takes the place of the lost memory of the actual . . . experience." -- Ernst Schactel
Our national spotlight should clearly be on the crib -- not on the criminal -- if we are to change the future. Infants who do not receive a warm welcome into the world will seek their revenge." -- Dr. Ken Magid and Cole McKelvey in High Risk: Children Without a Conscience
The stress of our lives and tension which emerges has much more relationship to our early histories than to our daily lives in the present. . . Even when one cries for a parent at a funeral, the agonizing quality of the grief derives from infancy, when love-loss was totally unbearable, much less from the present." -- E. Michael Holden, M.D. in The Journal of Primal Therapy - Winter 1976
The most painful disease I have every seen is that of an unloved child." -- Dr. Bernie Seigel
The young child's hunger for his mother's love and presence is as great as his hunger for food.
The first real choice a human baby must make is whether to trust or mistrust other humans. This basic trust-versus-mistrust stage is the first building block upon which all later love relationships are formed." --Dr. Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey in High Risk
The trauma that causes neurosis is lack of love and attention from parents." -- Thomas A. Stone in Cure By Crying
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. -- George Eliot Romola
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. -- Arthur Miller
You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth. -- Kahlil Gilbran
Children spell "love," T-I-M-E." -- Dr Anthony P Whitman
The more I encourage a child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think. -- Anonymous
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. -- George Bernard Shaw
Before you were conceived I wanted you, Before you were born I loved you, Before you were here for an hour I would die for you, This is the miracle of life. -- Maureen Hawkins
Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say. -- Wilfred Peterson
Parenthood is a partnership with God... you are working with the creator of the universe in shaping human character and determining destiny. -- Ruth Vaughn
I looked on child rearing not only as work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it. -- Rose Kennedy
Parenthood: the art of bringing up children without putting them down. -- Anonymous
As parents we never stand so tall as when we stoop to help our children. -- Dr Anthony P Whitman
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. -- Barry Edwards
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. -- Jan Blaustone "The Joy of Parenthood"
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. -- Zig Zaglar
Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better place because you were important in the life of a child. -- Anonymous
The child is father of the man. -- Wordsworth
To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult than to win an electoral victory. But it is also much more satisfying. -- Colette
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. -- P. L. Travers
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you paint children you must have no patronizing attitude toward them. Whoever approaches a child without humility, without wonderment, and without infinite respect, misses in his judgment of what is before him. . . . Paint with respect for him . . . He is the great possibility, the independent individual. -- Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in. -- Adolph Meyer
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. -- Unknown
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. -- Robert Macneil
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child. -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Our children change us�whether they live or not. -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. -- Mary MacCracken
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. -- Brian Tracy
The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. -- Hindustani proverb
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. -- Unknown
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass. -- Edward Abbey
What is a child? An experiment. A fresh attempt to produce the just man made perfect: that is, to make humanity divine. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am convinced that there is ten times more good than bad in a child, and about the bad, we can wait and see. -- Janusz Korczak
When a child walks down the road, a company of angels goes before him proclaiming, "Make way for the image of the Holy One." -- Hasidic Saying
The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or, again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things. -- Carson Smith McCullers
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. -- Roger Lewin
Childhood is short, maturity is forever. -- Calvin; from, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, p33-2
When there is not love for a child to remember, Then there is nothing for the child to remember except the hate. -- Roger Dean Kiser
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown--as for children--the days are long with gathering of experience. -- George Gissing (1857-1903) - The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Many children are intuitively sensitive to people close to them. A child who is in her heart can know when a parent or buddy needs a kind word, a hug, or some friendly conversation. -- Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority -- Jean Caldwell
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. -- Fred Rogers (b. 1928) / host of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. -- John Bradshaw
A child laughs four hundred times a day, an adult twenty five... -- Quartz and Sejnowski, What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are from
Throughout the world future generations of children and families will be much more interrelated. In order to protect the future for one child, we must protect it for all. -- T. Berry Brazelton and Stanley I. Greenspan in The Irreducible Needs of Children
