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

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Proverb, English

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

William Shakespeare

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Groucho Marx

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Proverb

22.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Shakespeare, William

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Epictetus

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

45.

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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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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

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

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