Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mary MacCracken

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Epictetus

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dogen

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

12.

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

Moses, Robert

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

19.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

23.

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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Who, Dr.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Norman Douglas

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Wilmot, John

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

44.

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

Edwards, Harry

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna