Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Who, Dr.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Mary MacCracken

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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Sam Levenson

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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

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Capp, Al

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Dogen

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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