Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

12.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Sam Levenson

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Fran Lebowitz

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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