Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jameson, Anna

Best Quotes about Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nash, Ogden

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dick Cavett

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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

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Who, Dr.

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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 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