Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

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

Wilmot, John

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Robert Orben

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

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

11.

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

12.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

13.

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

Who, Dr.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Moses, Robert

19.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

20.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

21.

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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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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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

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

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

26.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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

29.

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

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Moustakas, Clark

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

34.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

35.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

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

Dorothy Parker

41.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

Hunt, Leigh

43.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

44.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

45.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

46.

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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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

48.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

49.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Peter Ustinov