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

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

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

King Edward VIII

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Norman Douglas

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

Watts, Isaac

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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.