Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Ruskin, John

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.