Motivational Quotes

Children

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Plomp, John

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Hulbert, Harold

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

11.

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

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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

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

21.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

22.

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

Who, Dr.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

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

Sam Levenson

33.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

John Gray

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

43.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Jameson, Anna

45.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewin, Roger