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

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

Watts, Isaac

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

William Shakespeare

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Crane, Monta

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John J. Plomp

12.

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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bruce Barton

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Plomp, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.