Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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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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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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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plomp, John

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Who, Dr.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Robert Orben

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

Moses, Robert

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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