Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Who, Dr.

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

Ball, Lucille

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

11.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

20.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Groucho Marx

28.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

29.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

30.

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Dorothy Parker

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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

43.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dick Cavett

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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