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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Freud, Sigmund

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

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

Who, Dr.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

10.

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

Crane, Monta

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

15.

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

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

25.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

27.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

29.

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

Ball, Lucille

30.

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

Moustakas, Clark

31.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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

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

Bruce Barton

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dick Cavett

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb