Motivational Quotes

Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Chase, Alexander

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Robert Orben

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Bruce Barton

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

John J. Plomp

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Baldwin, James

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Phyllis Diller

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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