Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Crane, Monta

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

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

King Edward VIII

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

16.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

20.

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

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

25.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

26.

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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

28.

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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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

30.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

31.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Robert Byrne

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Fran Lebowitz