Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Montessori, Maria

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Fran Lebowitz

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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

12.

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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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

25.

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

26.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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 men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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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

40.

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

John J. Plomp

41.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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