Motivational Quotes

Children

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Moses, Robert

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Fran Lebowitz

11.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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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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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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

25.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

38.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Ovid

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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