Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

John Gray

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Bruce Barton

25.

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

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

29.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Dogen

32.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Plomp, John

35.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

King Edward VIII

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