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

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Groucho Marx

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

Baldwin, James

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Norman Douglas

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.