Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Norman Douglas

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

Lawana Blackwell

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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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

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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 are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois