Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plomp, John

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

Angelou, Maya

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Churchill, Winston

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

27.

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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

31.

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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rabbinical Saying

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

39.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

40.

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

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

45.

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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Ovid

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Adults are obsolete children.