Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Robert Orben

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

Mead, Margaret

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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

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

Capp, Al

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Ruskin, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Moses, Robert

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