Motivational Quotes

Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Children

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

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Sam Levenson

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

John J. Plomp

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Ovid

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fran Lebowitz

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Epictetus

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Dick Cavett

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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

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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

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker