Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilmot, John

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

11.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Moses, Robert

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

Groucho Marx

17.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

28.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

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

John J. Plomp

31.

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

32.

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

Groucho Marx

33.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Chase, Alexander

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

44.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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.