Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jameson, Anna

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Dorothy Parker

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Capp, Al

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

John J. Plomp

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

14.

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

Daniel Raeburn

15.

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

16.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

18.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

20.

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

21.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

27.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

28.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Montessori, Maria

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

33.

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

34.

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

Ball, Lucille

35.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

36.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

37.

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

38.

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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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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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

46.

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

47.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

48.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

49.

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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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