Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

John Gray

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Robert Orben

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

William Shakespeare

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Franklin, Benjamin