Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Dick Cavett

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Dorothy Parker

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

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Plomp, John

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Bruce Barton

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Epictetus

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John