Motivational Quotes

Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Watts, Isaac

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Mead, Margaret

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Morley, Christopher

21.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

23.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

24.

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

25.

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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

28.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

32.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

Edwards, Harry

34.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

40.

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

Epictetus

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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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