Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilbur, Ray L.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Ziglar, Zig

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

King Edward VIII

11.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

William Shakespeare

18.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

19.

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.

Anatole Broyard

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

22.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rabbinical Saying