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 men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Groucho Marx

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

John J. Plomp

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Robert Orben

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

William Shakespeare

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Proverb

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Watts, Isaac

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mead, Margaret

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Bruce Barton

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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

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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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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