Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilmot, John

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

Nash, Ogden

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Dick Cavett

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

13.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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It takes three to make a child.

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

17.

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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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

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

23.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Who, Dr.

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

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

37.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, English

42.

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

Mead, Margaret

43.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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