Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

John Gray

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Plomp, John

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Jameson, Anna

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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.

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Shakespeare, William