Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Epictetus

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Mary MacCracken

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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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