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

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

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

Wilmot, John

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Ruskin, John

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Moses, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

18.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Robert Orben

21.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

26.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

27.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

28.

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

John J. Plomp

29.

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

Dorothy Parker

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

33.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

34.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

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

36.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

38.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

King Edward VIII

40.

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

Hulbert, Harold

41.

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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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

47.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

48.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Nash, Ogden