Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Jones, Franklin P.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Who, Dr.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

King Edward VIII

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Nash, Ogden

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Plomp, John

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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

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Robert Orben