Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Groucho Marx

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Dogen

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

10.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

11.

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.

12.

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

Morley, Christopher

13.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

14.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

15.

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

16.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

26.

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 rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

33.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

34.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

35.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

36.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

37.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

40.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

44.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

48.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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