Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Churchill, Winston

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

13.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

16.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

17.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

18.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

19.

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

20.

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

Groucho Marx

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fran Lebowitz

24.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Capp, Al

27.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

Phyllis Diller

29.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

32.

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.

33.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

34.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Robert Orben

45.

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

Abbott, Lyman

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