Motivational Quotes

Children

Children always turn to the light.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Children

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

Sam Levenson

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Bible

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

13.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

14.

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

15.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

16.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

17.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

18.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

22.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

23.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

24.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

25.

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

26.

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

Mead, Margaret

27.

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

28.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

32.

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

33.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

34.

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

Jameson, Anna

35.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

36.

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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

43.

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

44.

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

Peter Ustinov

45.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Dick Cavett

47.

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

Epictetus

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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

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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