Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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It takes three to make a child.

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

24.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

25.

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

Groucho Marx

26.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

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

Norman Douglas

32.

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

Rabbinical Saying

33.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

34.

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

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

37.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

38.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

44.

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

Morley, Christopher

45.

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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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