Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

John Gray

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

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

12.

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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

14.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

Robert Orben

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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

18.

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

Moses, Robert

19.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

21.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

22.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

24.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

29.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

30.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

31.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

32.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

33.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

35.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

36.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

38.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

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

40.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

41.

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

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

44.

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

45.

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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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

48.

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

Pope, Alexander

49.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth