Motivational Quotes

Children

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jones, Franklin P.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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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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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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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

19.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

20.

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 are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Proverb, English

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fran Lebowitz

29.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plomp, John

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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