Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John J. Plomp

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

10.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

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

14.

It takes three to make a child.

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

15.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

16.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Capp, Al

21.

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

22.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

23.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

24.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

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

Groucho Marx

26.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

27.

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

Proverb

28.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

30.

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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

32.

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

Groucho Marx

33.

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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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

Norman Douglas

41.

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

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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