Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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.

11.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

12.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

13.

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

Robert Orben

15.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

16.

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

Dick Cavett

17.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

19.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

24.

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

Crane, Monta

25.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

29.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

38.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

39.

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

Robert Byrne

40.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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

46.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Ovid

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

Morley, Christopher