Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

John Gray

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Norman Douglas

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

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

William Shakespeare

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Dick Cavett

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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

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

25.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

26.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

28.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

29.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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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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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.

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