Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

John Gray

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

John J. Plomp

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Hulbert, Harold

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