Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

William Shakespeare

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dorothy Parker

23.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

24.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

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

Nash, Ogden

26.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

27.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

28.

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

Wilmot, John

29.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

31.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

32.

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

Robert Orben

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

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

35.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

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

37.

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

John J. Plomp

38.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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

Picasso, Pablo

40.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

41.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

42.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

43.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Ovid

48.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Curie, Madame Marie

50.

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