Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

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

Eliot, George

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Who, Dr.

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

Nash, Ogden

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hulbert, Harold

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

13.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Capp, Al

21.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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

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

Bruce Barton

25.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

32.

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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

34.

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

Plomp, John

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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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

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Dick Cavett

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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]