Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Who, Dr.

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

Baldwin, James

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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]

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

Watts, Isaac

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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]

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