Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hunt, Leigh

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

10.

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

Daniel Raeburn

11.

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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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Robert Byrne

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

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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

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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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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bruce Barton

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy