Motivational Quotes

Children

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Children

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Phyllis Diller

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Who, Dr.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Mead, Margaret

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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