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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

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

Dick Cavett

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Plomp, John

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

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

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

Dorothy Parker

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Who, Dr.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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.

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