Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Phyllis Diller

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Capp, Al

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Orben

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

King Edward VIII

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

36.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Chase, Alexander

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lawana Blackwell

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus