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

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

King Edward VIII

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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Robert Byrne

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

Baldwin, James

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

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bruce Barton

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

John J. Plomp

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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 are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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.

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Bombeck, Erma