Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Ovid

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilmot, John

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

24.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

John J. Plomp

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bombeck, Erma

33.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Byrne

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Proverb, English

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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