Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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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 are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Angelou, Maya

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Dogen

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Edwards, Harry

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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