Motivational Quotes

Children

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, English

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Oscar Wilde

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

10.

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

11.

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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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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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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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Mary MacCracken

20.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

28.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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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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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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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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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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

36.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle