QUOTES: ALL ABOUT KIDS :)


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


Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981


If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
~Pearl S. Buck


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, Emile, 1762


The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985


Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969


Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto


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


If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
~Edgar W. Howe


The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957


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