Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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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

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller