Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

William Shakespeare

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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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

28.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Plomp, John

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Who, Dr.