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

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Dick Cavett

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Norman Douglas

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Mead, Margaret

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Sam Levenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

King Edward VIII

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