Motivational Quotes

Children

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lewin, Roger

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

18.

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

Epictetus

20.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

27.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

33.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

34.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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