Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Sam Levenson

10.

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

Groucho Marx

11.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

12.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Watts, Isaac

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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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

20.

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

Edwards, Harry

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

22.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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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

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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