Motivational Quotes

Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Orben

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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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 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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Sam Levenson

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.