Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

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

Moses, Robert

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Ruskin, John

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

Sam Levenson

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Swift, Jonathan

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Capp, Al

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morley, Christopher

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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 countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.