Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Morley, Christopher

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

10.

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

11.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

13.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

14.

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

Ovid

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

18.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

30.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Robert Orben

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Jameson, Anna

37.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Abbott, Lyman

49.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Ball, Lucille