Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Watts, Isaac

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

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dorothy Parker

14.

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

Picasso, Pablo

15.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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

20.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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

25.

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

Bruce Barton

26.

It takes three to make a child.

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

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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

30.

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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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

37.

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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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

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

40.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

44.

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.

45.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.