Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

William Shakespeare

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 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

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

Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jameson, Anna

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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 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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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.