Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Children are our most valuable resource.
Herbert Hoover

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

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family.
Mother Teresa

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another.
C.S. Lewis

Children are our greatest treasure. They are our future.
Nelson Mandela

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4 (KJV)

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

My instinct is to protect my kids from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone.
Nicole Kidman

If we are to teach real peace in this world ... we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi

Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything is broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Ray Romano

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)

Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
Maria Montessori

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

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