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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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.

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

King Edward VIII

10.

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

Ball, Lucille

11.

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

Ovid

12.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

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

15.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

16.

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

17.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

18.

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

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

20.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

21.

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

27.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

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

Parker, Dorothy

30.

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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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hulbert, Harold

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

37.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

40.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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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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

45.

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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Groucho Marx

49.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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