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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Ovid

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dogen

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Plomp, John

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

John Gray

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lewin, Roger

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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