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

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

Plomp, John

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jameson, Anna

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

Sam Levenson

11.

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

Capp, Al

13.

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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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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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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Robert Orben

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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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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Dick Cavett

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

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

John J. Plomp

28.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

38.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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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

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston