Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

Capp, Al

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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 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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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

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sam Levenson

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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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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hulbert, Harold