Motivational Quotes

Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bible

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

John J. Plomp

15.

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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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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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

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

John Gray

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

25.

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

Epictetus

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lewin, Roger

28.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

32.

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

38.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.