Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

12.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

16.

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

Edwards, Harry

17.

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

18.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

19.

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

Lewin, Roger

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Freud, Sigmund

22.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

25.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

26.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

27.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

29.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

30.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

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

Jameson, Anna

33.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

35.

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

Proverb

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

42.

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

Robert Orben

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

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

Plomp, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus