Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

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

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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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 a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Morley, Christopher

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

33.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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

42.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.