Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jameson, Anna

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

John J. Plomp

27.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Who, Dr.