Motivational Quotes

Children

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

- Vaughan, Bill

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lawana Blackwell

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

10.

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

11.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

12.

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

Groucho Marx

13.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Peter Ustinov

16.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

20.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

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

Chase, Alexander

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

King Edward VIII

25.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

26.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

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

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

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

35.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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 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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

39.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

John Gray

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

43.

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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Who, Dr.

48.

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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von