Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

30.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

John J. Plomp