Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mead, Margaret

11.

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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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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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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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

18.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Who, Dr.

23.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

25.

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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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 you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Groucho Marx

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Ruskin, John

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

Crane, Monta

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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 rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

49.

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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John