Motivational Quotes

Children

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

- Phyllis Diller

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

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

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

29.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Bruce Barton

31.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

35.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

46.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya