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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Ball, Lucille

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Proverb, English

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Crane, Monta

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

John J. Plomp

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Capp, Al

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Who, Dr.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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