Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Wilmot, John

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Montessori, Maria

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

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

Groucho Marx

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Moustakas, Clark

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Dogen

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

Ball, Lucille

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Dick Cavett

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.