Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Orben

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Churchill, Winston

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Who, Dr.

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Sam Levenson

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

Franklin, Benjamin