Quotes

Published November 16, 2012

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

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

Children make your life important. — Erma Bombeck

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. — Liz Armbruster

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. — Anonymous

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. — Harold Hulbert

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. — William Stafford

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. — Robert Brault

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

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a 56 dollars set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. — Bill Vaughan

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

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