Motivational Quotes

Children

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

- Burbank, Luther

Best Quotes about Children

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Eliot, George

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Ovid

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Sam Levenson

18.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

19.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

20.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

21.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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

25.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

28.

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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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

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

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

34.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

35.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Dick Cavett

40.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Ruskin, John

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

Curie, Madame Marie

43.

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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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 are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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