Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Moses, Robert

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

22.

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

Who, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dick Cavett

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

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ovid

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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