Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Plomp, John

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Baldwin, James

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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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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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 is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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

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

Norman Douglas

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

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Wilmot, John

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus