Motivational Quotes

Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Robert Orben

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Dogen

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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