Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Shakespeare, William

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Who, Dr.

10.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

11.

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

12.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Dick Cavett

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Eliot, George

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

25.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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.

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Plomp, John

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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