Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Churchill, Winston

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

13.

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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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.

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Robert Orben

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Phyllis Diller

27.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

33.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

34.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

It takes three to make a child.

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

36.

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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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

41.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

43.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Norman Douglas

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David