Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wiesel, Elie

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.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

12.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

13.

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

Capp, Al

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

15.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

23.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

John J. Plomp

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Peter Ustinov

45.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman