Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Shakespeare, William

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Freud, Sigmund

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Who, Dr.

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

John J. Plomp

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

John Gray

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Dick Cavett

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Phyllis Diller

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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 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.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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