Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

11.

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

Groucho Marx

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

19.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Proverb

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Morley, Christopher

24.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

25.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

27.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

28.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Dorothy Parker

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, English

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Howe, Edgar Watson