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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Norman Douglas

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

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

Who, Dr.

13.

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

14.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

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

19.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

21.

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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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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

35.

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

Picasso, Pablo

36.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

38.

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

Lewin, Roger

39.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Tauscher, Stacia

45.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Robert Byrne

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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