Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

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

15.

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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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

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

18.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

19.

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

Dogen

20.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

21.

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

Plomp, John

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

Groucho Marx

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

24.

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

Who, Dr.

25.

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

26.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

27.

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

Montessori, Maria

28.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Capp, Al

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

34.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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

40.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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

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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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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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