Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

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

Dorothy Parker

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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.

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

Dogen

12.

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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

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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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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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

19.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

21.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tauscher, Stacia

24.

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

25.

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

Sam Levenson

28.

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

Mary MacCracken

29.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

30.

It takes three to make a child.

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

31.

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

32.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

33.

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

34.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

35.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

40.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

41.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

45.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

46.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

49.

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

Plomp, John

50.

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

Eliot, George