Motivational Quotes

Children

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Plomp, John

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Groucho Marx

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

Proverb, English

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

John J. Plomp

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra