Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Groucho Marx

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Angelou, Maya

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb