Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

10.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Capp, Al

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

20.

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

King Edward VIII

21.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

26.

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

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

28.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

32.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

33.

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

34.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Dogen

38.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

39.

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

Robert Orben

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

Moses, Robert

44.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Bruce Barton

46.

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

Plomp, John

47.

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

Freud, Sigmund