Quotes About Children...

Children Quotes

"Children are like wet cement.
Whatever falls on them makes an impression."
- Dr. Haim Ginott
1

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word
spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the
formation of character."
- Hosea Ballou
1

"The child must know that he is a miracle -
that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been,
and until the end of the world there will not be,
another child like him."
- Pablo Casals
1

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on their shoulders."
- Abigail Van Buren
1

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes,
and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for
them is never wasted."
- Garrison Keillor
1

"Children are the world's most valuable natural resource
and its best hope for the future."
- John F. Kennedy
1

"Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children,
and the one most important of all the things we can give them
is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything
at all except that they are our children."
- Rosaleen Dickson
1

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which
we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
- Albert Einstein
1

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1

"I was such an ugly kid, when I played in the sandbox,
the cat kept covering me up."
- Rodney Dangerfield

Quotes About Children...

Quotes and a Verse About Children

"Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to Me,
and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven
belongs to such as these.'"
- Matthew 19:14
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"Children require guidance and sympathy
far more than instruction."
- Annie Sullivan
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"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally,
and politely, put parents in their place."
- Colette
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"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter
of whether children hang up their pajamas or put dirty
towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves
and others - and whether they see everyday chores as
related to how we treat this planet."
- Eda Leshan
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"A child can always teach an adult three things:
to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something,
and to know how to demand with all his might
that which he desires."
- Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
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"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
- Herbert Hoover
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to
give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."
- Hodding Carter
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"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up
children; now I have six children and no theories."
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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"To nourish children and raise them against odds
is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix
bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."
- Marilyn French
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"Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious,
sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites,
quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,
especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain
but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already."
- Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688
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"Human beings are the only creatures that allow
their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby
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"Bitter are the tears of a child; Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child; Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
- Pamela Glenconner

Joke - On Having Children

On Having Children

Birth order

first baby: You begin to wear maturnity clothes as soon as your Ob/GYN confirms your pregnancy.

second Baby: You wear your regular clothes as long as possible.

third baby: Your maternity clothes are your regular clothes.

Preparing for Birth

first baby: You practice your breathing religiously.

second baby: You don't bother because after the first baby, you found out that breathing doesn't do a thing.

third baby: You ask for an epidural that eighth month of your pregnancy.

The Layette

first baby: You prewash your newborn's clothes, color coordinate them and fold them perfectly in the baby's bureau.

second baby: You check to make sure the baby's clothes are clean and discard the ones with the dark stains.

third baby: Boy's can wear pink can't they?

Worries

first baby: The first sign of distress or even a whimper you pick the baby up.

second baby: You pick him/her up when the wails threaten to wake up your first born.

third baby: You teach your three year old how to wind the mechanical swing.

Pacifier

first baby: If the pacifier falls out of the baby's mouth you put it away until you can get home and wash and boil it.

second baby: When the pacifier falls out you squirt it with some juice until you can get home.

third baby: You wipe it off on your shirt and pop it back in.

Diapering

first baby: You change your baby's diaper every hour whether he/she needs it or not.

second baby: You change the baby's diaper every two to three hours when needed.

third baby: You try to change the baby's diapers before someone starts to complain about the smell or the diaper is hanging down below his/her knees.

Activities

first baby: You take your baby to the baby gym, baby swing, and baby gymnastics.

second baby: You take your infant to baby gymnastics.

third baby: You take your infant to the grocery store and the cleaners.

Going out

first baby: The first time you leave your baby at a sitter's you call every five minutes.

second baby: Just before you walk out the door you remember to leave the number of where you can be reached.

third baby: You leave instructions for the baby to only call if she sees blood.

At home

first baby: You spend a good bit of every day just gazing at the baby.

second baby: You spend a good part of the day watching to make sure the older sibling is not sqeezing, hitting or choking the other baby.

third baby: You spend a litte bit of every day hiding from the children.

swallowing coins

first baby: When your first child swalows a coin you take your child to the hospital emergency room demanding x rays.

second baby: When your second child swallows a coin, you carefully watch until he passes the coin.

third baby: When a third child swallow a coin ,you deduct it from their allowance.