Motivational Quotes

Children

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Edwards, Harry

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Rabbinical Saying

10.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Dick Cavett

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

Ovid

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Angelou, Maya

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Moses, Robert

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Norman Douglas

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

32.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

33.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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.

40.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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.