Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

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.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Bible

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Plomp, John

10.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

12.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

13.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Capp, Al

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

John J. Plomp

17.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

21.

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

Robert Orben

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

28.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

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

Watts, Isaac

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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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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.