Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Capp, Al

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Sam Levenson

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Ovid

10.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

17.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

18.

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

Fran Lebowitz

19.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

20.

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

21.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

22.

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

23.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

24.

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

25.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Hunt, Leigh

28.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

29.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

30.

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

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

39.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Groucho Marx

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