Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Bombeck, Erma

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

22.

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

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

Norman Douglas

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Ovid

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

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

John J. Plomp

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Plomp, John

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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 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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Moses, Robert