Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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

14.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Edwards, Harry

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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