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

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Lewin, Roger

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Moses, Robert

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Mead, Margaret

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Robert Orben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Groucho Marx

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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 unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Epictetus

43.

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

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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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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James