Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Kraus, Karl

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ruskin, John

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

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Capp, Al

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Rabbinical Saying

20.

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

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

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

Bruce Barton

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

27.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

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

Eliot, George

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Proverb, English

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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