Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, English

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Rabbinical Saying

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

Mead, Margaret

11.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

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

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Groucho Marx

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robert Orben

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

Kraus, Karl