Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

William Shakespeare

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

King Edward VIII

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 child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Norman Douglas

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

11.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

12.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

13.

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

14.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

15.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

17.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

19.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

20.

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

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

23.

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

24.

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

Dick Cavett

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

27.

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

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Hunt, Leigh

33.

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

John Gray

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Groucho Marx

40.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

47.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

48.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin