Motivational Quotes

Children

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

11.

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

Sam Levenson

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

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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

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Churchill, Winston

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Norman Douglas

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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Groucho Marx

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Phyllis Diller