Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Plomp, John

12.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

14.

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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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

18.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

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

21.

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

Abbott, Lyman

25.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

29.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Picasso, Pablo

35.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Robert Orben

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

44.

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

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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

47.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller