Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Proverb, English

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Bible

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

10.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Nash, Ogden

12.

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

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

17.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

18.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

19.

It takes three to make a child.

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

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

22.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

26.

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

Crane, Monta

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

28.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

30.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

32.

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

Sam Levenson

33.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plomp, John

38.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Capp, Al

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Orben

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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.

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

50.

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.