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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Baldwin, James

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Robert Orben

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

Moses, Robert

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

42.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara