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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

12.

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

Chase, Alexander

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Robert Orben

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

Lewin, Roger

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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 rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.