Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

- Pollok, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Dorothy Parker

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelou, Maya

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Hulbert, Harold

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