Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

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

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

10.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

11.

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

12.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

15.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

Dogen

20.

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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

Groucho Marx

26.

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

27.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

28.

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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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

30.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

32.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

33.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

34.

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

Fran Lebowitz

35.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

37.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

38.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

39.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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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

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jones, Franklin P.