Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Robert Orben

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

21.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

23.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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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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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.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

King Edward VIII

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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

Moustakas, Clark