Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Robert Byrne

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

Who, Dr.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

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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.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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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

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Oscar Wilde

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Jameson, Anna

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Fran Lebowitz

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold