Motivational Quotes

Children

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]

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Best Quotes about Children

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jameson, Anna

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

William Shakespeare

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

12.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

16.

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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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

18.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

19.

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

Robert Orben

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wiesel, Elie

28.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

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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

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

34.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Groucho Marx

39.

It takes three to make a child.

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

40.

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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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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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

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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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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

45.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

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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