Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

Crane, Monta

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

Capp, Al

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilmot, John

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

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Who, Dr.

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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

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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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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse