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

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Fran Lebowitz

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

10.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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

16.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

17.

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

Plomp, John

18.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

19.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

20.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

21.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

22.

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

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

30.

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

Wilmot, John

31.

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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

33.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

34.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

36.

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

Robert Orben

37.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

38.

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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

42.

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

John J. Plomp

43.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

46.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

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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