Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

John Gray

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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 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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Peter Ustinov

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Angelou, Maya

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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 have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

39.

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

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Ovid

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

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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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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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