Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sam Levenson

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Groucho Marx

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

Epictetus

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Bruce Barton

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

38.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plomp, John

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo