Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Jameson, Anna

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Nash, Ogden

24.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Ovid

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.