Motivational Quotes

Children

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

- King Edward VIII

Best Quotes about Children

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

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

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Robert Orben

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Who, Dr.

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

33.

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

Plomp, John

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell