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

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

John J. Plomp

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

Crane, Monta

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

Wilde, Oscar

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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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

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plomp, John

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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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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 child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul