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

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

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Plomp, John

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Morley, Christopher

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

John Gray

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Baldwin, James

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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