Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Plomp, John

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

10.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

18.

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

Peter Ustinov

19.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

20.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

21.

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

Rabbinical Saying

23.

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.

24.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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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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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

28.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Robert Orben

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Hulbert, Harold

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

Moses, Robert

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies