Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Mary MacCracken

12.

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

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

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

Ovid

18.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

19.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

23.

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

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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

25.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Who, Dr.

28.

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

Peter Ustinov

29.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

32.

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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

Dorothy Parker

41.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

John J. Plomp

43.

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

Wilmot, John

44.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

45.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Capp, Al

49.

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

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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