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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Sam Levenson

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

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Parker, Dorothy

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Groucho Marx

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Nash, Ogden

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?