Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Moses, Robert

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

Jameson, Anna

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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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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

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

Proverb

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

31.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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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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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann