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

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

Montessori, Maria

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Bruce Barton

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Epictetus

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Jameson, Anna

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

41.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Dick Cavett

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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