Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

John J. Plomp

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lewin, Roger

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Baldwin, James

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

37.

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

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Ruskin, John

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

47.

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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo