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Top 99 "It Takes A Village To Raise A Child" Similar Quotes

If you believe in the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child,” you’ll appreciate these similar quotes from famous figures throughout history. Here are the top 99 quotes to inspire and encourage you in your role as a caregiver:

1. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
2. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
3. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
4. “The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
6. “Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” – Anonymous
7. “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher
8. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley
9. “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” – Chinese Proverb
10. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
11. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein
12. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare
13. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
14. “To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” – Josh Billings
15. “A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be curious, and to fight tirelessly for something.” – Paulo Coelho
16. “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
17. “It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
18. “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
19. “A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” – Lyman Abbott
21. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank
22. “Children are natural zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.” – John Bradshaw
23. “Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” – Haim Ginott
24. “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” – Patrick Rothfuss
25. “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” – Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
26. “Children are not things to be used, but are people to be cherished.” – Anonymous
27. “Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.” – Ed Asner
28. “The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” – Ray L. Wilbur
29. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
30. “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important.” – Abraham Lincoln
31. “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.” – Pablo Casals
32. “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
33. “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” – Arundhati Roy
34. “Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.” – Laura Schlessinger
35. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – Neil Postman
36. “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – Harry S. Truman
37. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
38. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
39. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
40. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff
41. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
42. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
43. “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” – Robert Heinlein
44. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John W. Whitehead
45. “The greatest gift we can give our children is to raise them in a home filled with love, laughter, and joy.” – Anonymous
46. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
47. “Children need love, especially when they don’t deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
48. “Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.” – Lionel Kauffman
49. “Children are not only innocent and curious, but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.” – Carolyn Haywood
50. “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
51. “Children are the keys of paradise.” – Eric Hoffer
52. “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important.” – Mari Evans
53. “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
54. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
55. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – John Trainer
56. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
57. “The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
58. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
59. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John W. Whitehead
60. “Children are not things to be used, but are people to be cherished.” – Anonymous
61. “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” – Chinese Proverb
62. “A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.” – Rabelais
63. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
64. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
65. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis