Motivational Quotes

Children

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Children

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

Kraus, Karl

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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

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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

John Gray

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Robert Orben

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

Capp, Al

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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

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Plomp, John

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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