Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

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.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Angelou, Maya

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

William Shakespeare

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Orben

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Norman Douglas

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John