Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Dogen

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Norman Douglas

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

Moses, Robert

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

39.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.