Motivational Quotes

Children

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Norman Douglas

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

Mary MacCracken

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Plomp, John

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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 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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewin, Roger

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bruce Barton

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Picasso, Pablo

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Dick Cavett

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb