Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Crane, Monta

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

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Peter Ustinov

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Robert Orben

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston