Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Angelou, Maya

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Lewin, Roger

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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

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

Sam Levenson

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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