Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

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

Peter Ustinov

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Daniel Raeburn

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Who, Dr.

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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

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

Dick Cavett

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

Dogen

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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It takes three to make a child.

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

43.

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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Tauscher, Stacia