Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

10.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

11.

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

12.

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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

19.

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

20.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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

23.

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

24.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

25.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

27.

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

28.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bombeck, Erma

32.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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

Watts, Isaac

36.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

37.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

Dick Cavett

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Dorothy Parker

43.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

45.

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

Capp, Al

46.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

47.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

50.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis