Motivational Quotes

Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Children

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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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 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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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