A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
-- Willa Cather

A child's smile is like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.
-- Author Unknown

A happier child you'll never see... ... and to think he's smiling up at me!
-- Margie Lundy

A mother holds her child's hand for a little while but holds their hearts forever.
-- Author Unknown

A person's a person, no matter how small.
--Dr. Seuss

A smile is a curve that sets things straight.
-- Author Unknown

A snuggle a day keeps the grumpies away!
-- Author Unknown

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
-- Bill Vaughan

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
-- Indian Proverb

All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others.
-- Michael Carr

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
-- Earvin Magic Johnson

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
-- Red Skelton

As a child my family's menu consisted of 2 choices: take it, or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
-- Ursula K. Leguin

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
-- Jean Houston

Be gentle with the young.
-- Juvenal

Beautiful eyes are those that show the beautiful thoughts that burn below.
-- Ellen Allerton

Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there.
-- Ellen Palmer Allerton

Beauty is not caused. It is.
-- Emily Dicksinson

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

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven!
-- William Wordsworth

Cherish your dreams. Follow your passions. They are the guiding hands of your heart.
-- Flavia

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

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

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder... as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
-- Eugene Ionesco

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
-- Letitia Landon

Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
-- Desmond Tutu

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside each of them is our hope for the future.
-- Janusz Korczak

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.
-- Ladybird Johnson

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
-- John W. Whitehead

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
-- John Bradshaw

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
-- Franklin P. Jones

Children come into this world with fresh eyes to see all that is beautiful, embrace all that is joyful, and love unconditionally with open heats and minds.
-- Author Unknown

Children make you want to start life over.
-- Muhammad Ali

Children run wildly, breathlessly... facing the wind...absorbing its speed.
-- Author Unknown

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

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen...
-- A.A. Milne

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
-- Lillian Carter

In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
-- Ann Landers

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
-- Anne Tyler

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
-- Jean Anouilh

Life, love, and laughter -- what priceless gifts to give our children.
-- Phyllis Dryden

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

My best creation is my children.
-- Diane Von Furstenberg

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
-- Dr. Henker

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

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

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

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
-- Mary Jo Putney

What is a home without children? Quiet.
-- Henny Youngman

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
-- Franklin P. Jones

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
-- Wayne Dyer

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