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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]
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Children Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Children

1.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Churchill, Winston

2.
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

3.
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Harry

4.
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph

5.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

6.
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Pollok, Robert

7.
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

8.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
La Bruyere, Jean De

9.
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Moses, Robert

10.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid

11.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander

12.
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Who, Dr.

13.
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore

14.
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Eliot, George

15.
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher

16.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII

17.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

18.
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Cottle, Thomas J.

19.
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David

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.
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Friedan, Betty

22.
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.

23.
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

24.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch

25.
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

26.
What is done to children, they will do to society.
Menninger, Karl A.

27.
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

28.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra

29.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry

30.
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

31.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne

32.
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

33.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz

34.
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Proverb

35.
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
Ruskin, John

36.
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

37.
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John

38.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Ball, Lucille

39.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Johnson, Lady Bird

40.
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander

41.
The child is the father of the man.
Wordsworth, William

42.
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

43.
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Lair, Dr. Jess

44.
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Ruskin, John

45.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Angelou, Maya

46.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller

47.
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.
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

49.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Lewin, Roger


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