Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Lawana Blackwell

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Who, Dr.

24.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mead, Margaret

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Plomp, John

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

Ovid

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Groucho Marx

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von