Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

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

Moses, Robert

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

John Gray

15.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

16.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

20.

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

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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

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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.

23.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

24.

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

Dorothy Parker

25.

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

26.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

27.

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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

29.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

30.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

31.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

35.

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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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

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

Groucho Marx

39.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

42.

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

45.

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

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

Dogen

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Robert Orben