Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Abbott, Lyman

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Robert Orben

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

Bible

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

Hunt, Leigh

11.

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

12.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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 are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

23.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

William Shakespeare

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

John J. Plomp

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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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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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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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