Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

Ovid

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

10.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

11.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

12.

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

Plomp, John

13.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

19.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

23.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Groucho Marx

25.

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

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.

33.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

36.

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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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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Capp, Al

41.

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

Robert Byrne

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

John J. Plomp

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Morley, Christopher

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