Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Montessori, Maria

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Fran Lebowitz

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Moses, Robert

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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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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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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Norman Douglas

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Groucho Marx

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

John Gray

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

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Edwards, Harry

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.