Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

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

Chase, Alexander

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Moustakas, Clark

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Gray, Thomas

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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Capp, Al

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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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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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Shakespeare, William

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.