Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Norman Douglas

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

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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

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Dick Cavett

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Groucho Marx

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Moustakas, Clark