Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Mary MacCracken

10.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

11.

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

King Edward VIII

12.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

13.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

14.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jameson, Anna

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

25.

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

Plomp, John

26.

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

28.

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

Robert Orben

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ovid

31.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

32.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Groucho Marx

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

38.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Lawana Blackwell