Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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

Picasso, Pablo

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

10.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

11.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

12.

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

Capp, Al

13.

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

Robert Orben

14.

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

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

Groucho Marx

16.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Robert Orben

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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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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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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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Angelou, Maya

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane