Motivational Quotes

Children

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

- Lamb, Charles

Best Quotes about Children

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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 child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Robert Orben

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Phyllis Diller

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Lamb, Charles

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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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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 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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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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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle