Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Chase, Alexander

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Mary MacCracken

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

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

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

Ovid

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Robert Orben

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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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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

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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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

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

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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