Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

10.

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

Capp, Al

11.

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

Moses, Robert

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb, English

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Robert Orben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dorothy Parker

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Groucho Marx

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Oscar Wilde

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Churchill, Winston

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Tauscher, Stacia