Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

John J. Plomp

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

William Shakespeare

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

12.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Plomp, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

19.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

27.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Capp, Al

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

Kraus, Karl

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

41.

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Hulbert, Harold

50.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola