Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Proverb, English

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

John J. Plomp

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bombeck, Erma

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

27.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Ruskin, John

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.