Motivational Quotes

Children

It's fun being a kid.

- Angier, Bradford Arthur

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

10.

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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

21.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

27.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

John J. Plomp

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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