Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dick Cavett

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Jameson, Anna

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Robert Orben

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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

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

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

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De