Motivational Quotes

Children

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

- Wilbur, Ray L.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ruskin, John

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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 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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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Jameson, Anna

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Sam Levenson

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Moustakas, Clark