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

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

John Gray

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Epictetus

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Moses, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

King Edward VIII

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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