Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Bruce Barton

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

Groucho Marx

16.

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

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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

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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

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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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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

21.

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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

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

24.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

25.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Lewin, Roger

30.

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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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

33.

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

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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

Hunt, Leigh

36.

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

37.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

40.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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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

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

47.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De