Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dorothy Parker

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

King Edward VIII

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

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

Proverb, English

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Robert Orben

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

24.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

25.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jameson, Anna

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Plomp, John

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Dick Cavett

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

Bruce Barton

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Sam Levenson