Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Chase, Alexander

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Churchill, Winston

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

43.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Ball, Lucille

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Lewin, Roger