Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

12.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

14.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

23.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

31.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

33.

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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

35.

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

Robert Byrne

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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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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Groucho Marx

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