Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Sam Levenson

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

10.

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

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

14.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Norman Douglas

18.

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

Dogen

20.

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

Capp, Al

21.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

22.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

23.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

24.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

25.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

26.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

28.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

29.

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

30.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

31.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

34.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

35.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

40.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

43.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

44.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

45.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

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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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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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl