Motivational Quotes

Children

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Capp, Al

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

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

Robert Orben

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Edwards, Harry

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Montessori, Maria

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Moses, Robert

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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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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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

35.

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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett