Motivational Quotes

Children

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Phyllis Diller

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ruskin, John

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Dorothy Parker

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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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