Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wilmot, John

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

Who, Dr.

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Dick Cavett

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

34.

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

Sam Levenson

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Chase, Alexander

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Lewin, Roger

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.