Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lewin, Roger

13.

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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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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 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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lawana Blackwell

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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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

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore