Motivational Quotes

Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

13.

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

Abbott, Lyman

14.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

18.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Moses, Robert

23.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

24.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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

Jameson, Anna

26.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

27.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

28.

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

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

32.

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

33.

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

Lewin, Roger

34.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

40.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

49.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert