Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dick Cavett

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Sam Levenson

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

Dogen

11.

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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Plomp, John

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

Edwards, Harry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

28.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

40.

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

Eliot, George

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

Lewin, Roger

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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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

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Freud, Sigmund