Motivational Quotes

Children

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Ball, Lucille

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Plomp, John

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

Sam Levenson

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Lewin, Roger

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hulbert, Harold

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston