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 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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Dick Cavett

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Moustakas, Clark

24.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

28.

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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Robert Orben

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