Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

11.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

12.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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

15.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

16.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

King Edward VIII

18.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

20.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

25.

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.

26.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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.

30.

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

31.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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

33.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

35.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

36.

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

Wilmot, John

37.

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

Robert Orben

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

40.

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

Ovid

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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 child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]