Motivational Quotes

Children

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Groucho Marx

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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 cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.