Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Crane, Monta

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Morley, Christopher

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

10.

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

11.

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

Watts, Isaac

12.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

13.

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

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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

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

Capp, Al

21.

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

Plomp, John

22.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

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

Peter Ustinov

28.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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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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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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

32.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Mary MacCracken

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

43.

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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

45.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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