Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Abbott, Lyman

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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

11.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

18.

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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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

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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

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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 child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

33.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

37.

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

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

41.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

44.

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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.