Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Oscar Wilde

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wilmot, John

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Lewin, Roger

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