Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Groucho Marx

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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

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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

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

41.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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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

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

Moses, Robert

47.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Baldwin, James