Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

10.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

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.

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

Fran Lebowitz

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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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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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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

22.

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

Robert Orben

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

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

25.

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

John J. Plomp

26.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

27.

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

Watts, Isaac

28.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Groucho Marx

45.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

Norman Douglas

47.

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

48.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson