Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

11.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

13.

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

Peter Ustinov

14.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Angelou, Maya

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Robert Orben

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Who, Dr.

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

Groucho Marx

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty