Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Angelou, Maya

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

38.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

39.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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