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

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. Author Unknown

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert

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

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. John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

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

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

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw

Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad. Dena Groquet

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