Motivational Quotes

Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Shakespeare, William

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Baldwin, James

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Epictetus

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Plomp, John

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

John J. Plomp

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Lewin, Roger

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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