Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

10.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

11.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

12.

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

14.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

King Edward VIII

18.

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

Who, Dr.

19.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

20.

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

Dick Cavett

21.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

Wilmot, John

30.

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 are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman