Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Baldwin, James

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plomp, John

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

Ovid

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

18.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, English

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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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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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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

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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

33.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Morley, Christopher

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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

Groucho Marx

48.

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

Angelou, Maya

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb