Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

- Pollok, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

Crane, Monta

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

King Edward VIII

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

Fran Lebowitz

28.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

29.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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

40.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix