Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

11.

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

John J. Plomp

12.

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

13.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

15.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

16.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

17.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Angelou, Maya

24.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

28.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

32.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

33.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

34.

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

35.

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

36.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Who, Dr.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

49.

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

William Shakespeare