Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

John J. Plomp

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

Plomp, John

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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

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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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

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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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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

18.

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

Robert Orben

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

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

Edwards, Harry

23.

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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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Mead, Margaret

35.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Ovid

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Children need models rather than critics.