Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lewin, Roger

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Groucho Marx

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

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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Sam Levenson

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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

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

Capp, Al

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

William Shakespeare

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.