Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Capp, Al

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Gray, Thomas

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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.

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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

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson