Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Lawana Blackwell

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Ball, Lucille

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

King Edward VIII

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Plomp, John

25.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

26.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chase, Alexander

29.

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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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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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

33.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Dogen