Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

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

Groucho Marx

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ruskin, John

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Dorothy Parker

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

John J. Plomp

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

11.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

12.

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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

14.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Nash, Ogden

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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 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

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

25.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

27.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

30.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

31.

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

Capp, Al

32.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

39.

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

Dogen

40.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

44.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

45.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Robert Orben

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

48.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph