Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sam Levenson

11.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, English

18.

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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Plomp, John

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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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

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Norman Douglas

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

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Groucho Marx

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Capp, Al

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

Ball, Lucille

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett