Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Edwards, Harry

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Epictetus

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Plomp, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Groucho Marx

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David