Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Freud, Sigmund

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

William Shakespeare

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Bruce Barton

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Edwards, Harry

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dick Cavett

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane