Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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.

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

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Swift, Jonathan

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund