Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

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

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

Phyllis Diller

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.

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

Wilmot, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Bruce Barton

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

King Edward VIII

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.