Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Pope, Alexander

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ovid

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

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Dick Cavett

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

Plomp, John

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.