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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

John J. Plomp

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

John Gray

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Ball, Lucille

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Hunt, Leigh

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