Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Ball, Lucille

12.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

13.

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

Capp, Al

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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Jameson, Anna

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

21.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dick Cavett

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

32.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

33.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

34.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

35.

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

Mead, Margaret

36.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Plomp, John

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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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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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

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

Groucho Marx

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.