Motivational Quotes

Children

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

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

Eliot, George

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Nash, Ogden

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Angelou, Maya

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Dorothy Parker

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

15.

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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Plomp, John

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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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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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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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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

22.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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

28.

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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Jameson, Anna

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Mead, Margaret

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

39.

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

40.

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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, English

44.

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

Bruce Barton

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

48.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.