Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Robert Orben

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

Hunt, Leigh

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

King Edward VIII

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

Capp, Al

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Edwards, Harry

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Ovid

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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