Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

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]

Bible

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

John J. Plomp

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Wiesel, Elie

10.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

13.

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

14.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

15.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

18.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

Edwards, Harry

23.

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

24.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

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

Jameson, Anna

26.

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

Wilmot, John

27.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

28.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

29.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

30.

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

31.

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

32.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

37.

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

38.

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

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

Mary MacCracken

40.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

41.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

42.

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

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

Capp, Al

44.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

48.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

49.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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