Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Proverb, English

10.

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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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 is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

19.

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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Robert Orben

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dick Cavett

31.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dorothy Parker