Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Sam Levenson

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

15.

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

Montessori, Maria

16.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

17.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

28.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

33.

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

Mead, Margaret

34.

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

36.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Jameson, Anna

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

41.

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

Proverb, English

42.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

46.

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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb