Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bruce Barton

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Groucho Marx

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

10.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ball, Lucille

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

22.

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

23.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

Abbott, Lyman

27.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

28.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

31.

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

Ovid

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Lewin, Roger

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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

37.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

44.

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

Parker, Dorothy

45.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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