Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Menninger, Karl A.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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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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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

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

24.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

King Edward VIII

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

32.

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

Wilmot, John

33.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Freud, Sigmund

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Baldwin, James

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Norman Douglas

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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

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Fran Lebowitz