Motivational Quotes

Children

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

Moses, Robert

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

Who, Dr.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jameson, Anna

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

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

Ovid

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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.

31.

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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Lawana Blackwell