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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Who, Dr.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

12.

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

14.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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 unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Groucho Marx

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

King Edward VIII

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

John J. Plomp

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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.