Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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 are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Ruskin, John

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Groucho Marx

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.