Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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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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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 of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Capp, Al

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hulbert, Harold

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moses, Robert

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

John Gray