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

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Plomp, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Dick Cavett

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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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

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Epictetus

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry