Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

John Gray

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Baldwin, James

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

Buck, Pearl S.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

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