Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Who, Dr.

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

John J. Plomp

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Moses, Robert

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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