Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert Orben

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

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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

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

Dick Cavett

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

Robert Orben

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Tauscher, Stacia

43.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Capp, Al

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.