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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Moses, Robert

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Edwards, Harry

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Fran Lebowitz

12.

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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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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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Capp, Al

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Hunt, Leigh

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

28.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold