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

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

Shakespeare, William

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Epictetus

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

It takes three to make a child.

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

22.

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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Groucho Marx

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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The child is the father of the man.

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

Robert Orben

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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

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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