Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Groucho Marx

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Kraus, Karl

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Dick Cavett

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Epictetus

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Churchill, Winston

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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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