Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mead, Margaret

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

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

12.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

13.

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

Lewin, Roger

14.

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

Robert Orben

15.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

16.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

18.

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

19.

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

Edwards, Harry

20.

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

Mary MacCracken

21.

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

Who, Dr.

22.

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

Bombeck, Erma

23.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

24.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

25.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

26.

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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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

28.

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

Robert Orben

29.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

30.

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

31.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

42.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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