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.

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

Epictetus

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

Phyllis Diller

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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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 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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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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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Robert Orben

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Crane, Monta

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Sam Levenson

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Capp, Al

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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.