Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dorothy Parker

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Mary MacCracken

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Nash, Ogden

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Peter Ustinov

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moses, Robert

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Tauscher, Stacia

28.

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

29.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

33.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Ovid

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

37.

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

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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

Dick Cavett

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Robert Byrne

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

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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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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

49.

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

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