Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Norman Douglas

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

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Robert Orben

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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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Mary MacCracken

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

31.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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