Motivational Quotes

Children

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Plomp, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

10.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

11.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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 little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Norman Douglas

17.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

18.

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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Robert Orben

26.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Fran Lebowitz

33.

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

34.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

37.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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.

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

42.

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

Phyllis Diller

43.

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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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

King Edward VIII

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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