Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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 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 child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Dick Cavett

28.

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

29.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

John J. Plomp

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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

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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