Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Capp, Al

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

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.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Plomp, John

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

Ruskin, John

17.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

John J. Plomp

24.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

30.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

31.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

32.

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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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.

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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

35.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

36.

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

37.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

38.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

39.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

40.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fran Lebowitz

45.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

47.

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

48.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Parker, Dorothy