Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

10.

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

Mary MacCracken

11.

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

Montessori, Maria

12.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

13.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

Angelou, Maya

15.

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

John Gray

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Plomp, John

18.

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

Jameson, Anna

19.

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

20.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

21.

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

John J. Plomp

22.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

24.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

28.

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

Groucho Marx

29.

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

Nash, Ogden

30.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

32.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

34.

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

35.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

41.

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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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

43.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

44.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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.