Brainy Quotes

Empowering Tomorrow: Children as the Leaders of the Future

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• “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
• “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
• “Children make your life important.” – Erma Bombeck
• “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” – Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy

• “Children see magic because they look for it.” – Christopher Moore
• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
• “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
• “Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” – Anonymous

“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” – Lyman Abbott

• “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
• “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
• “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
• “A child’s mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.” – Dorothea Brande
• “Children are the keys of paradise.” – Eric Hoffer

“Children are the keys of paradise.” – Eric Hoffer

• “Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.” – Giacomo Leopardi
• “Children need models rather than critics.” – Joseph Joubert
• “Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.” – John Bradshaw
• “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – Neil Postman
• “Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” – Haim Ginott

“Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

• “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
• “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.” – Franklin P. Jones
• “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
• “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair

• “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – Neil Postman
• “Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” – Anonymous
• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
• “Children see magic because they look for it.” – Christopher Moore
• “Children make your life important.” – Erma Bombeck

“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson

• “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” – Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
• “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
• “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
• “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Children make your life important.” – Erma Bombeck

“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy

• “Children see magic because they look for it.” – Christopher Moore
• “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
• “Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” – Anonymous
• “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“Children need models rather than critics.” – Joseph Joubert

• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
• “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
• “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” – Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
• “Children are the keys of paradise.” – Eric Hoffer
• “Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.” – Giacomo Leopardi
• “Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.” – Jawaharlal Nehru