Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

William Shakespeare

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

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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.

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

Bruce Barton

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Dick Cavett

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Oscar Wilde

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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

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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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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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There is no sinner like a young saint.