Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Moustakas, Clark

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

19.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Jameson, Anna

21.

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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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

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

Lewin, Roger

27.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Robert Orben

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

Oscar Wilde

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

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

38.

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

Ruskin, John

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

40.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

43.

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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Groucho Marx

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

Robert Orben

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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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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