Motivational Quotes

Children

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ovid

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Robert Byrne

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Swift, Jonathan

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Dick Cavett

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

46.

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

Robert Orben

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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

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

Bruce Barton