Motivational Quotes

Children

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Abbott, Lyman

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Hulbert, Harold

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

12.

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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

20.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

22.

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

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

33.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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.