Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Who, Dr.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

10.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

12.

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

Mead, Margaret

13.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Epictetus

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

23.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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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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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 are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dogen

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

Morley, Christopher

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

35.

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

Lewin, Roger

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

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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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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

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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.