Motivational Quotes

Children

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Bruce Barton

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Eliot, George

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Crane, Monta

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

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

Epictetus

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Moses, Robert

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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