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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Who, Dr.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Groucho Marx

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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.

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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.