Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Eliot, George

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Angelou, Maya

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

John J. Plomp

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

Mary MacCracken

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moses, Robert

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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