43 quotes
“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder and children are the best at it”
— Jostein Gaarder
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.”
— Khalil Gibran
“If you want your family children to turn out well spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.”
— Will Rogers
“It is easier to build strong children within loving families than to repair broken men.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”
— Sitting Bull
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each others children. Education is the answer.”
— Jimmy Carter
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“If a child is to keep alive their inborn sense of wonder they need the companionship of at least one adult who can share it”
— Rachel Carson
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”
— Dalai Lama
“You may house the bodies of your children but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children”
“The soul is healed by being with children in a loving family.”
“Every child in a family comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself born into wonder”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerable”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
“I would like to make a film to tell children its good to be alive”
— Hayao Miyazaki
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.”
— James Baldwin
“The soul is healed by being with children who remind us what wonder looks like in its purest form”
— Dostoevsky
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children through families.”
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
— Sophocles
“If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.”
— Thomas Paine
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them and always with kindness”
— Judy Blume
“Nothing you do for your family children is ever wasted.”
— Garrison Keillor
“The soul is healed by being with children for they embody the pure faith we have forgotten”
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
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