Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Capp, Al

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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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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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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Bruce Barton

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert Orben

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles