Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Wilmot, John

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

Robert Orben

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

10.

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

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

14.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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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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

17.

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

Mead, Margaret

18.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

19.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

20.

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.

21.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

22.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

23.

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

Robert Byrne

24.

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

Groucho Marx

25.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

29.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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

31.

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

32.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

33.

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

Who, Dr.

34.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

35.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

36.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

37.

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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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

39.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

40.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

41.

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

Fran Lebowitz

42.

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

Angelou, Maya

43.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

46.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

47.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

48.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

49.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

50.

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