Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Tauscher, Stacia

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

John J. Plomp

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Groucho Marx

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Who, Dr.

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.