Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Morley, Christopher

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

12.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

17.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

21.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

33.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

35.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

36.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Daniel Raeburn

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

Dorothy Parker

48.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.