Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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.

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Edwards, Harry

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Morley, Christopher

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, 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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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