Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, James

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

11.

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

Hulbert, Harold

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Who, Dr.

14.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

15.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

16.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Crane, Monta

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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

30.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

31.

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

Sam Levenson

32.

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

33.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

34.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

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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