Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Tauscher, Stacia

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Hunt, Leigh

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plomp, John

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

11.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Rabbinical Saying

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

18.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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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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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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bombeck, Erma

28.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb