Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Children

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Who, Dr.

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

John J. Plomp

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Capp, Al

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Phyllis Diller

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

33.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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 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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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.