Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Eliot, George

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Ball, Lucille

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

Ovid

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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Robert Orben

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Capp, Al

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plomp, John

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

Who, Dr.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Dick Cavett

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo