Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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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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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Plomp, John

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

Capp, Al

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

William Shakespeare

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Wilde, Oscar