Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Angelou, Maya

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Proverb, English

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

21.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

22.

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

23.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

26.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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

30.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

King Edward VIII

32.

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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

Dick Cavett

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

39.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

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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