Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Moses, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Dick Cavett

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

King Edward VIII

23.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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

Chase, Alexander

32.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

33.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

35.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

41.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dyer, Wayne