Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Mary MacCracken

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

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

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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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

11.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

12.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moses, Robert

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

22.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Who, Dr.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Ball, Lucille

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

John J. Plomp

31.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dick Cavett

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

Robert Orben

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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.

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin