Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Eliot, George

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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 finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

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

Who, Dr.

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Capp, Al