Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Proverb

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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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

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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

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Robert Orben

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Mead, Margaret

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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]

Bible

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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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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

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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

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