Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Pope, Alexander

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Fran Lebowitz

10.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

Robert Orben

13.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

14.

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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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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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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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

It takes three to make a child.

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

25.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

26.

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

Peter Ustinov

27.

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

Moses, Robert

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

30.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

35.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

36.

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

Bible

37.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

38.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

39.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

40.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

43.

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

44.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

45.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English