Motivational Quotes

Children

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

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

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

12.

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.

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

Capp, Al

14.

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

John J. Plomp

15.

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

Robert Orben

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

21.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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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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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

25.

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Sam Levenson

28.

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.

Anna Quindlen

29.

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

Groucho Marx

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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 the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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