Motivational Quotes

Children

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

- Burbank, Luther

Best Quotes about Children

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Groucho Marx

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Mead, Margaret

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

10.

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

Phyllis Diller

11.

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

Ovid

12.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

13.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

Chase, Alexander

15.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

16.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Bible

19.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

20.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

21.

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

22.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

23.

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

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

28.

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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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

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Robert Orben

32.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

Wilmot, John

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Freud, Sigmund

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

49.

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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.