Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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 see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Plomp, 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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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Wilmot, John

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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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 your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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

41.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward