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

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

Capp, Al

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Robert Orben

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Morley, Christopher

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

10.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

13.

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

14.

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

Robert Orben

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

17.

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

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

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

Dick Cavett

30.

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

31.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

32.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne