Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

Baldwin, James

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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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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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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