Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

12.

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

Capp, Al

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

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

15.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

16.

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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

18.

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

19.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

King Edward VIII

24.

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

Ball, Lucille

25.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Robert Byrne

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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

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

37.

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

Robert Orben

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

42.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Mead, Margaret

44.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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

46.

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

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

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Pope, Alexander