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

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

John J. Plomp

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Edwards, Harry

12.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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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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

16.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

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

Norman Douglas

20.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

29.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

30.

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

31.

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

Kraus, Karl

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

35.

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

39.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

40.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

41.

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

46.

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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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