Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Proverb

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

John J. Plomp

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

12.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Torrie, Alfred

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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

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Freud, Sigmund

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

43.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

It takes three to make a child.

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

45.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Moses, Robert