Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Plomp, John

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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.

Montessori, Maria

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Proverb, English

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Who, Dr.

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

26.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

John Gray

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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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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dick Cavett

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Mead, Margaret

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.