Motivational Quotes

Children

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Children

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.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, English

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Lewin, Roger

12.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

14.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

King Edward VIII

18.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

19.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

20.

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

Mary MacCracken

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

26.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

33.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

34.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

36.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Moses, Robert

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

Hulbert, Harold

43.

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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

48.

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

Pope, Alexander

49.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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.