Motivational Quotes

Children

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Children

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Angelou, Maya

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Moses, Robert

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Robert Orben

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

Mead, Margaret

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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It takes three to make a child.

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

33.

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

Robert Orben

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Capp, Al

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

King Edward VIII

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Epictetus

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Edwards, Harry