Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Rabbinical Saying

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Robert Orben

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

Who, Dr.

25.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

26.

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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

28.

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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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

31.

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

Robert Orben

32.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

40.

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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

46.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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.