Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hunt, Leigh

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

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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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

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Plomp, John

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ovid

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

42.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer