Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert Byrne

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Crane, Monta

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

William Shakespeare

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Churchill, Winston

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.