Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Hunt, Leigh

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Plomp, John

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

John Gray

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

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

Dorothy Parker

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

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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

17.

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

18.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

19.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

23.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

24.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

28.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

29.

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

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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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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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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

33.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

34.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

35.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

45.

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

Bruce Barton

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.