Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dorothy Parker

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Plomp, John

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

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

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Proverb

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

Moses, Robert

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

Angelou, Maya

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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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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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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