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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Epictetus

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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

John J. Plomp

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Dogen

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

Plomp, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Ruskin, John

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Lewin, Roger

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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.