"Quotes" for Teachers: Children, Childhood, Parents, Family

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

-Stacia Tauscher

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

-Angela Schwindt

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

-Robert Brault

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

-Phyllis Diller

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

-Frank A. Clark

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

-Frederick Douglass

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

-Walt Streightiff

The best preparation for being a happy and useful man or woman is to live fully as a child.

-The Plowden Report

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other is wings.

-Hodding Carter

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

-Jane Howard

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

-Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

-Robert Brault

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

-Elizabeth Stone

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

-Jesse Jackson

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

-Robert Fulghum

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

-Roger Lewin

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.

-Marilyn Penland

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

-Vicki Lansky

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

-P.D. James

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

-Mignon McLaughlin

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

-Haim Ginott

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

-Jean Kerr

Kids spell love T-I-M-E.

-John Crudele

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

-Sloan Wilson

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

-Clarence Day

I am not young enough to know everything.

-Oscar Wilde

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.

-John Andrew Holmes

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

-Frank A. Clark

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.

-Robert Brault

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. but when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much he had learned in seven years.

-Mark Twain

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.

-Yoda

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

-Fred G. Gosman

Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.

-Stephanie Martson

We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child.

-William G. Defoore

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

-Barbara Walters

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Children, no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will be fine when they grow up does no good at all.