Motivational Quotes

Children

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

- Montessori, Maria

Best Quotes about Children

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Proverb, English

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewin, Roger

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

King Edward VIII

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

33.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Shakespeare, William

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund