Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Daniel Raeburn

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

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

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Bruce Barton

14.

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

Plomp, John

15.

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

Phyllis Diller

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

21.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

22.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

23.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

24.

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

Fran Lebowitz

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

26.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

27.

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

28.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

30.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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

Robert Orben

32.

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

33.

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 also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

35.

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

Dick Cavett

36.

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

37.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

38.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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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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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

44.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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.