Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Children

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

15.

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

Rabbinical Saying

17.

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

18.

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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

28.

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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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

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

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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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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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

35.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

36.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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.