Motivational Quotes

Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Peter Ustinov

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Angelou, Maya

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

11.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

12.

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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Groucho Marx

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

John Gray

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Sam Levenson

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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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

27.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Moustakas, Clark

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

34.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Jones, Franklin P.