Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nash, Ogden

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Sam Levenson

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

13.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Capp, Al

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Groucho Marx

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Chase, Alexander

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Who, Dr.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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