Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John J. Plomp

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

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

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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

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Mead, Margaret

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Robert Orben

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Nash, Ogden

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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