CHILDREN!#

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 In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?"  And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.  ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.  ~Author Unknown We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.  ~Christopher Morley A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  ~Author Unknown 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, www.robertbrault.com Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982 Children are one third of our population and all of our future.  ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  ~Fran Lebowitz Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  ~Rabindranath Tagore 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 A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.  ~Bill Vaughan If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  ~Pearl S. Buck In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children.  The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted.  The result is unruly children and childish adults.  ~Thomas Szasz Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.  ~Franklin P. Jones Children make you want to start life over.  ~Muhammad Ali Boy, n.:  a noise with dirt on it.  ~Not Your Average Dictionary I am fond of children - except boys.  ~Lewis Carroll Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  ~Author Unknown A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.  ~Author Unknown A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.  ~Robert Benchley 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 Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.  ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  They are life-sized.  ~Margaret Atwood While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. ~Angela Schwindt What is a home without children?  Quiet.  ~Henny Youngman It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.  ~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.  ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945 Do your kids a favor - don't have any.  ~Robert Orben Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.  ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.  ~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969 Our genes make us immortal.  ~The Secret of Life, PBS Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are.  Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are.  Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  ~Phyllis Diller Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.  ~Red Skelton The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  ~Joe Houldsworth 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 It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  ~Frederick Douglass If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com 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 Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it:  little men already.  ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688 There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

BACK TO SCHOOL!#

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


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.  If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.  ~Erma Bombeck


Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.  ~Bill Dodds


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris


You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so.  After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.  ~Margaret Laurence


The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.  ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  ~John Dewey


The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.  ~Author Unknown


I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown


Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.  That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.  ~Author Unknown


There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.  ~Author Unknown


The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  ~Ralph W. Sockman


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.  ~George Bernard Shaw


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  ~Aristotle


A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.  ~W.H. Auden


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin


A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.  ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~Mark Twain


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.  ~Finley Peter Dunne


You can get all A's and still flunk life.  ~Walker Percy


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ~Albert Einstein


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.  ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok


Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  ~Edward Everett


He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?  ~Erich Fromm

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.  Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.  ~Martin H. Fischer


Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.  ~William Haley


Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.  ~Doug Larson


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.  ~Malcolm S. Forbes


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.  ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890


Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use?  It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that.  All we need to do is start the war on education.  If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.  ~Leighann Lord


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.  ~Peter Drucker


Education is the movement from darkness to light.  ~Allan Bloom


Much education today is monumentally ineffective.  All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.  ~John W. Gardner


Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.  ~William Butler Yeats


I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.  Then they would really be educated.  ~Al McGuire


Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.  ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents


The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education.  School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.  ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  ~Bishop Mandell Creighton


You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford


When the student is ready, the master appears.  ~Buddhist Proverb


You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond


The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ~Mohammed


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  ~Winston Churchill


The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  ~Mortimer Adler


Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.  ~Thomas Szasz


I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.  ~Bernard Keble Sandwell


Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.  ~Dana Stewart Scott


The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  ~Alvin Toffler


If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams


The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.  ~Kahlil Gibran

BEING YOURSELF!#

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~Arnold H. Glasow


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power


Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  ~C.D. Jackson


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.  ~Author Unknown


Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Author Unknown


God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.  ~Author Unknown


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~Woody Allen


Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.  ~Author Unknown


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  ~Charles C. Noble


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.  ~Art Linkletter


Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.  ~Ralph Marston


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss


Put your future in good hands - your own.  ~Author Unknown


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.  ~Michelangelo

The man who has done his best has done everything.  ~Charles M. Schwab

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.  ~Charles D. Gill


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~Albert Einstein


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.  ~Fred Dehner


Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light.  All other impossibilities are optional.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss


Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


Dreams are free, so free your dreams.  ~Astrid Alauda


I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.  ~Pablo Picasso


What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley


It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.  ~Author Unknown


Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.  ~Henry Ford


I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth


In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.  ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25


People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


Success comes in cans, not cant's.  ~Author Unknown


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan


If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison


Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.  ~Max L. Forman


Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra


Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.  ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971


The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.  ~Author Unknown


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.  ~Larry Bird


The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.  ~Author Unknown


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  ~Thomas Edison


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.  ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.  ~Ann Landers


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.  ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.  ~Author Unknown


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't find fault.  Find a remedy.  ~Henry Ford


To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.  ~Joe Cordare


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~Buddha