Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Phyllis Diller

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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.

11.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

14.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

15.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

21.

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

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

24.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Robert Byrne

26.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

27.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

28.

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

Groucho Marx

29.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

30.

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

Hulbert, Harold

31.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

33.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

John Gray

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

42.

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

43.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

44.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Who, Dr.

49.

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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson