Motivational Quotes

Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

14.

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

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

17.

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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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

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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

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

24.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

25.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

26.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

27.

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

28.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

29.

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

30.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

35.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

36.

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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

39.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

41.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

46.

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

47.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

48.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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