Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Crane, Monta

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

King Edward VIII

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

10.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

12.

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

13.

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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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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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

16.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

20.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

21.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

24.

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

25.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

26.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

27.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Moustakas, Clark

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

34.

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

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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.