Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jameson, Anna

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Crane, Monta

11.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

18.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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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.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Robert Orben

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird