Motivational Quotes

Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- Fyfe, David

Best Quotes about Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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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.

11.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

12.

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 potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Bruce Barton

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Phyllis Diller

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

33.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

34.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

35.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

47.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Johnson, Lady Bird