Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Lewin, Roger

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Plomp, John

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

37.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dick Cavett

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Wilmot, John

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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