Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Plomp, John

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King Edward VIII

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

16.

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

17.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

18.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

19.

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

Edwards, Harry

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Mead, Margaret

24.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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

32.

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

33.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Mary MacCracken

35.

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

36.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ovid

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Wilmot, John

41.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

42.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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

44.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

47.

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

Morley, Christopher

48.

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

Peter Ustinov

49.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

50.

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