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

~Frank A. Clark

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

~Dr. James C. Dobson

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

~Carl Sagan

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

~Robert Schueler

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

~Clarence Darrow

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

~Zig Ziglar

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

Know what it is to be a child . . . To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

~William Blake

Cosmic upheaval, is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

~Thomas Savage

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

~Thomas Jefferson

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

~Stacia Tauscher

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

~Sigmund Freud

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

~Roger Lewin

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

~Rabindranath Tagore

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

~Plato

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

~Patricia Clafford

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.

~Michael Levine

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

~Marjorie Holmes

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

~M. Grundler

A hundred years from now . . . it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

~Kathy Davis

Children need models more than they need critics.

~Joseph Joubert

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

~John Lubbock

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

~John Locke

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

~Jane Addams

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

~Frank A. Clark

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I love little children-and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us.

~Charles Dickens