Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Norman Douglas

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Plomp, John

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

Ovid

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

Gray, Thomas

10.

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

Sam Levenson

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Angelou, Maya

17.

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

Bruce Barton

18.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

19.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Robert Byrne

25.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

26.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

28.

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

Mary MacCracken

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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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

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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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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

44.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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 best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur