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

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Robert Orben

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Robert Byrne

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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 your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

25.

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

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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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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Moses, Robert

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies