Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Picasso, Pablo

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Fran Lebowitz

11.

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

Bruce Barton

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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 completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Norman Douglas

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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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