Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

- Spolin, Viola

Best Quotes about Children

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Proverb, English

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

14.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

15.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

16.

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

Jameson, Anna

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

26.

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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

28.

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

Abbott, Lyman

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Daniel Raeburn

31.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

32.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

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

36.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

41.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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

43.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

44.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

45.

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

Bombeck, Erma

46.

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

Lawana Blackwell

47.

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

Epictetus

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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

50.

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