Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lawana Blackwell

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Chase, Alexander

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Ovid

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

12.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

13.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Robert Byrne

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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

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Dogen

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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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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

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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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Plomp, John

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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