Motivational Quotes

Children

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Children

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

10.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

11.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

12.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

13.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Baldwin, James

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bombeck, Erma

17.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

18.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

19.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

20.

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

Montessori, Maria

21.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

22.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

24.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

25.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

26.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

27.

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

Abbott, Lyman

28.

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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Norman Douglas

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

33.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

38.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

39.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

40.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

43.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

44.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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.

Keillor, Garrison

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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