Motivational Quotes

Children

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Children

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Groucho Marx

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Groucho Marx

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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.

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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Norman Douglas

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dick Cavett

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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