Children will succeed beyond their wildest dreams

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” – George Bernard Shaw
“A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.” – Francois Rabelais
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy

“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!” – David Vitter
“If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die.” – Moroccan Proverb
“If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.” – Marian Wright Edelman
“Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgments, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.” – Emma Thompson

“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.”
“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” -Oscar Wilde

“A sense of worthiness is a child’s most important need.” – Polly Berends
“Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.” – Emma Thompson
“To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.” – Sidonie Gruenberg
“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

“The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving of ways.” – Russel Barkley
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” – Jane Nelson
“A moving child is a learning child.” – Gill Connel and Cheryl McCarthy
“The world of religion isn’t a logical world; that’s why children like it. It’s a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children’s stories or fairy tales.” – Yehuda Amichai