Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nash, Ogden

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

King Edward VIII

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Peter Ustinov

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Churchill, Winston

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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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

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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.