Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Mary MacCracken

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Dick Cavett

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilmot, John

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

Who, Dr.

29.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

30.

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

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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.