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

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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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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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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

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

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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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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

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.