Motivational Quotes

Children

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Who, Dr.

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

Crane, Monta

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

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

Ruskin, John

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

10.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

11.

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

12.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

13.

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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Sam Levenson

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Montessori, Maria

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.