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Quotations About Listening
Featured Quotations
for the Month of March
A Focus on the Family
The most basic of
all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.
The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
— Ralph Nichols
Education commences
at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing
of little children tends towards the formation of character.
– Hosea Ballou
I think a lot of our
problems are because people don't listen to our children.
It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant
that you want to spend hours with them.
But it is very important to listen to them. – Barbara
Bush
Don't worry that children
never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
– Robert Fulghum
The most valuable
gift you can give your child is to listen to the little and
big things in his life. Begin early so that the lines of communication
will be open during the teenage years. – Kimberly Keith
Just talking to your
child is only half the job. You can keep the lines of communication
open by knowing how to listen and when to talk. — National
Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
Listen earnestly to
anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what.
If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they
are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are
big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.
But unless they are talking to you, stay out of it. Indiscriminate
eavesdropping is a threat to parental sanity. – Catherine
M. Wallace
Long before I wrote
stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something
more acute than listening to them. When their elders sit and
begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come
out, like a mouse from its hole. – Eudora Welty
Don't feel that you
must advise or help your child come up with a solution all
the time. The value of listening is in the listening itself.
– Kimberly Keith
The words that a father
speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard
by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly
heard at the end, and by posterity. – Ricther
The little child whispered,
"God, speak to me." And a meadowlark sang. But the
child did not hear. So the child yelled, "God, speak to me!"
And the thunder rolled across the sky. But the child
did not listen. The child looked around and said, "God
let me see you." And a star shone brightly
But the child did
not notice. And the child shouted, "God show me a miracle!"
And a life was born. But the child did not know. So the child
cried out in despair, "Touch me God, and let me know you are here!"
Whereupon God reached down And touched the child. But
the child brushed the butterfly away and walked away unknowingly.
Take time to listen.
Often
times, the things we seek are right underneath our noses.
Don't miss out on your blessing because it isn't packaged
the way that you expect. — Anonymous
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