Children & Teenagers Quotes for Cards and Scrapbooks

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream

I wish I’d had the magical feeling back I had when I was a child. All the beliefs that built up my very own world.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark

A sister is someone who is there and understands who you are. She will be there with you no matter what situation you have been through and going to hit in the future. A sister is your family, best friend, and your friend forever. She is the one you tell your deepest secret to.

Ask the Young: they know everything!

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind

Books and cats and fair haired little girls are the best furnishings for a room

But there are just sometimes in my life where being me, right now, where I am, is just like, enough...

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

From a little girl so very small, how and when did you get so tall?

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

I can't have as many children as I want so I will help as many children as I can.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

"Life reveals her beauty one precious miracle at a time".

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children".

Our greatest natural resource is the minds or our children.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

sometimes its the smallish things that take up the most room in our hearts

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child

"They never stop asking me, 'what will you be?-- A doctor, a dancer, A diver at sea?' They never stop bugging me, 'what will you be?' As if they expect me to stop being me."

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

We are the generation that tried to grow up too fast.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

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

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." ...Oliver Wendell Holmes "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." ...Jewish proverb "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ...Honore' de Balzac "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ...Author Unknown "Nobody knows of the work it makes To keep the home together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes, Nobody knows-but Mother." ...Anonymous "Making the decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking arou...

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

A child fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.

A child is the greatest poem ever known.

A child reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

A Child's Hand THERE is nothing in the world that will make you feel so GRAND As the wee gentle TUG of a little child's HAND. Their LITTLE chubby fingers and FRAGILE tender touch Brings JOY to all the willing hearts who LOVE them so much.

A Child's Hand THERE is nothing in the world that will make you feel so GRAND As the wee gentle TUG of a little child's HAND. Their LITTLE chubby fingers and FRAGILE tender touch Brings JOY to all the willing hearts who LOVE them so much.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

A chip off the old block.

A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous… full of beauty and forever beautiful… loving and caring and truly amazing.

A face without freckles is like a sky with out stars.

A face without freckles is like a sky without stars.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a boy. - Excerpt from an essay originally published in the October 1950 issue of Scouting magazine.

A hundred years from now,the world may be different because I was important in the life of my child.

A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and love you just the same.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family Many children are intuitively sensitive to people close to them. A child who is in her heart can know when a parent or buddy needs a kind word, a hug, or some friendly conversation

A teenager is a person who answers the phone in the middle of the first ring.

a truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know all the answers.

Adults may teach a child to work hard and fast, but it takes a child to teach an adult how to breathe.

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

All the dreams I prayed you'd be, Are all the things you are. You were once my little girl, And now my shining star.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Armed and Dangerous! Has an attitude and knows how to use it!

As we watch them grow, the resemblances come into view like a photograph developing.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

Autism is only a part of ME

Baseball Coach/Team Parent Quotes You Really Hit A Grand Slam As Our Team Dad/Mom/Parent! We Sure Caught A Winner!...You're A Real Catch! You Deserve the MVP...You're An All-Around Winner! Bases Loaded, 2 Outs and You're The One That We'll Always Want To Have In Our Corner!... Just Our Little Way Of Saying Thank You So Much For All That You Have Done! You Sure Came Through For Us While At Bat!...Thanks For Stepping Up To The Plate! T - Thanks for E - Everything You Did A - And for M - Making Our Team Extra Great! C - Caring O - Outstanding Attitude A - Always Being There C - Carrying The Load H - Helping Us On Our Way Here To Victory! R - Really B - Big I ...

Be who you are and say what you think, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Being Brother & Sister means being there for each other.

Between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature of a boy.

Bliss it was to be alive, but to be young was very heaven.

BUGS, pl. n: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.

But not alone at Christmastime comes holiday and cheer, for one who loves a little child has Christmas all the year.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Children are our most valuable resource.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

CHILDREN AREN'T HAPPY WITH NOTHING TO IGNORE, AND THAT'S WHAT PARENTS WHERE CREATED FOR

Children change much like the seasons and its best to capture the innocence of both

Children Grow and they become all that you use to be...all the things you want and hate about yourself ...like looking through a mirror...they live by your Example...Realize and Fear this reality .... It's never too late to set a good example and admit your old mistakes..

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children Learn What They Live If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with impropriety, he learns to feel shame. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate. He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he le...

Children make your life important...

Children outgrow everything, but Mommy's heart

Children reinvent the world for you.

Children require direction and sympathy more than they require instructions.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Cleaning the house while the kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk while its snowing.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.

Don't put boundaries on your grown-up children..teach them to put those boundaries themselves..respect it to a point of trusting ...yet keep a close endless watch from a distance.(

Embarrassing my children: Just one more service I offer.

Esteem a child as your teacher--and you will see humbling reflections of yourself.

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

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

FOR SALE BY OWNER: Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes. Excellent Condition. $1,000 or best offer. No longer needed, my Teenager knows everything.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest, and most lasting teacher he children have.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Getting to know the youngest people in my life has been a joy.

girls are like phones we love to be held, talked to but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Give your children two things, one is roots, the other wings.

God gave us children to bring immeasurable joy into our lives!

Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us much faster than we outgrow them.

Good times to remember, to cherish, the youth, the love and trust, they grow up to fast...give them memories that last.

Growing old is mandatory ~ Growing up is optional.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Happy are the families where the government Of the parents is the reign of affection And the obedience of the children The submission of love.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Having Children Makes You Understand Why Some Animals Eat Their Young

HeartMath Discovery Program Empower your child by giving him/her a choice and a chance. Let them learn to make their own decisions, when appropriate, and learn to trust their feelings.

Hold your children with open arms, so they always know they can come home to you.

How can you say there are too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. (Mother Teresa)

I am not young enough to know everything.

I am what I am!

I hope my children look back on today And remember a mother who had time for play. There will be years for cleaning and cooking 'Cause children grow up when we're not looking.

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms round my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown

I love you...to infinity and beyond!!!!!!!

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

I never knew how much I loved you until I saw the way you loved our children ~

I pick up the love we both made in my arms

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I thought I knew what love was until a child got into my heart.

I wonder if I'll be held responsible for this?

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be.

I'll take a shower while peeing.What do you think about that person?!?!?!?!?!

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves.

in raising children i have lost my mind but found my soul.

In the life of a teenager, you stay up all night and sleep all day.

Isn't "bribe" just another word for love?

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and gentleness than by fear.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness

It takes a village to raise a child.

It's easy to blend in with the crowd, but you owe it to yourself to live your life in color.

It's fun being a kid.

Kids don't care what you know til they know that you care.

Kids: They dance before they learn that there is anything that isn't music.

Laugh often, Dream big, Reach for the stars!

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. ~ C. Everett Koop

Little children are God's greatest gift to a marriage!

Look and you will find it-- what is unsought will go undetected. --Sophocles

many things can wait, the child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed, his mind is being developed. To him, we cannot say tomorrow; his name is today.

May He who has chosen to limit some of His children be merciful enough to guide the hands of us entrusted with their care.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Never be afraid to have too much fun

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Never help a child with a task at which she feels she can succeed.

Never pass up an opportunity to pee

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.

No teenager has been shot for cleaning their room.....

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.

Once you become a mother your the frame, not the picture...

One thing about being born with beauty -- you don't look for it.

One way to measure your success is to listen to how your child talks about you to his friends.

Only an Aunt... Can give hugs like a mother... Can keep secrets like a sister... And share love like a friend!

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.

panic, chaos, disorder...my work here is done.

Patience, persistence and perspiration - dealing with children

Plant a little love, watch a miracle grow.

Please, Mom and Dad... My hands are small - I don't mean to spill my milk My legs are short - Please slow down so I can keep up with you Don't slap my hand when I touch something bright and pretty - I don't understand Please look at me when I talk to you - It lets me know you're really listening My feelings are tender - Don't nag me all day - Let me make mistakes without feeling stupid Don't expect the bed I made or the picture I draw to be perfect - Just love me for trying Remember I am a child not a small adult - Sometimes I don't understand what you are saying I love you so much - Please love me just for being me - Not for the things I can do

Point of View.......These are few quotes from this fabulous book by J.S. Salt 1 "Show me the way, not only through what you did that was great, but also by the mistakes which have devastated you." -Michael Age 13 2. "Support me even when you know I will Fil, You may be surprised with waht happens." --Sam, Age 15 3.Raise me to be proud of who I am, to be a self confident and valuable person. Elizabeth, age 13 4. I'm glad you always let me know you love me no matter what, Dont ever change that. Doug, Age 16

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Raising children is like being pecked to death by a duck.

raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Raising teenagers is like trying to nail jello to a tree.

Remember me this way

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Running from the law, the press, and the parents.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Sisters by blood, Friends by choice

Some people make the world more special just by being in it.

Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others--a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.

son (sun) n. [ME ] 1. a collector of treasures and heroes 2. a source of found objects in laundry (e.g., rocks, twigs, etc.) 3. his father's pride and his mother's heart. SYN.-an adventure (ad ven'cher)

Soon you'll be a man, my son...

the best training any person can give a child is to train the child to train himself.

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

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

The days are long but the years are short.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

the glory of a nation rests in the character of her men. and the character comes form boyhood. thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

The joy of a child is in his smile,but the fun part is just a ride away.

The Laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the Delightful Sounds of the earth.

The only smart thing about you is your mouth.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The surest way to make it hard for your children is to make it soft for them.

The visions that we present to our children shape the future. They become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

There are a lot of different ways to get to the top of the jungle gym From - REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF MY KIDS HAVE TAUGHT ME

There are only two lasting bequests we can can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.One is roots;the other, wings

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. | -Benjamin Spock

There is no measure greater than this: THE JOY that comes from a child's HAPPINESS.

There is no place I would rather be than with thee.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

They don't know it yet, but we are the LUCKY ones.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

thinking only of yourself-immaturity. realizing others are more important than you are-maturity.

Through the eyes of a child

Tip Details Note: Creating Keepsakes posts these tips and tricks as a service to its users and is not responsible for the content of such tips and tricks. A CHILD'S MEMORY Submitted: Jun. 20, 2003 Next Tip » A child won't remember how many pairs of shoes you bought them, or how much you paid for those expensive clothes. But they will remember how loud you cheered for them at thier losing ball games, and that long ride home just talking about stuff.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

To be a child is to know the fun of living. To have a child is to know the beauty of life. --Unknown

To be in your children's memories tommorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

We (I) don't suffer from insanity...we (I) enjoy it!!

We call a child’s mind “small” simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

We must love our children generously. There is no other way.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

We worry about what a child ill become tomorrow, yet be forget that he is someone today.

we worry about what a child will become tomorrow,yet we forget that he is someone today

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We've had bad luck with our kids-they've all grown up.

When I count my blessings, I count you twice.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

When I was young I could remember anything...whether it happened or not.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about."

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

With both heart and mind, we can build caring communities, design schools that develop children's wisdom and emotional strength along with their intellect and physical strength, and operate institutions with balance, intelligence and appreciation for people and the environment.

You are the trip I did not take You are the pearls I cannot buy You are my blue Italian Lake You are my piece of foreign sky

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

You too, my mother, read my rhymes. For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more, The little feet along the floor.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you, but not from you. And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you can not visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them but, seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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