Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Mary MacCracken

11.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

12.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

13.

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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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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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

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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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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.

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Edwards, Harry

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Epictetus

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

Ovid

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Hunt, Leigh

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

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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

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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.