Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilmot, John

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

10.

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

11.

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

Phyllis Diller

12.

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

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

19.

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

20.

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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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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