Motivational Quotes

Children

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Moses, Robert

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

John J. Plomp

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

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

11.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

16.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

19.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

25.

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

26.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

28.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

29.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

30.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

33.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

37.

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

38.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

40.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Epictetus

45.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

46.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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