Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

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

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Robert Orben

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Capp, Al

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen