Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Baldwin, James

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

John Gray

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

Robert Orben

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

Kraus, Karl

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Capp, Al

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

10.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

11.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

13.

It takes three to make a child.

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

14.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

15.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

16.

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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

18.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

19.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

20.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

22.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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

24.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

26.

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

Dick Cavett

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Jameson, Anna

30.

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

Phyllis Diller

31.

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

Plomp, John

32.

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

Hulbert, Harold

35.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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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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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

39.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

40.

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

41.

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

Groucho Marx

42.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

46.

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.

47.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

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

49.

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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb