QUOTES ABOUT CHILDREN AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. -  Rachel Carson 

A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value - Caroline Norton 

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. - J. B. Priestley 

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

- Khalil Gibran 

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Anne Sullivan Macy 

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabindranath Tagore 

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Oscar Wilde 

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills. - Martin Seligman 

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

- Maria Montessori 

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

- Walt Disney 

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 

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. - Michel de Montaigne 

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. - Pablo Neruda 

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. - Henri Frederic Amiel 

Why fit in when you were born to stand out ? - Dr. Seuss 

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius 

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S. Truman 

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could. - Henry Ward Beecher 

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi 

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 

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. - J. Robert Oppenheimer 

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. - John Muir 

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. - Denis Waitley 

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. - Margaret Mead 

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up. - Robert Moss 

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. - John Betjeman 

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children - Chief Seattle 

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. - Rudolf Steiner 

Children are our most valuable natural resource. - Herbert Hoover

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation. - Edward Eggleston