Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Capp, Al

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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 seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Mary MacCracken

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya