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

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

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Edwards, Harry

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

11.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Dick Cavett

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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

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Oscar Wilde

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Moses, Robert

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

Montessori, Maria

29.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

32.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Hulbert, Harold