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

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Groucho Marx

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ball, Lucille

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

24.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dick Cavett

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

43.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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

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

48.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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