Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Mary MacCracken

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Groucho Marx

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

King Edward VIII

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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 will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Watts, Isaac

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

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

Dick Cavett

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kraus, Karl

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Chase, Alexander

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.