Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

William Shakespeare

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lawana Blackwell

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Mead, Margaret

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Who, Dr.

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Jameson, Anna

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold