Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Moses, Robert

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Groucho Marx

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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