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

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Sam Levenson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Moses, Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Robert Orben

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

19.

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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hunt, Leigh

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse