Motivational Quotes
Children
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Best Quotes about Children
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Baldwin, James
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
Lamb, Charles
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
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil
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
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Burbank, Luther
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
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Jordan, June
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
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
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
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
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
It takes three to make a child.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki
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
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette
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
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English
The child is the father of the man.
Wordsworth, William
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard
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
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Wilbur, Ray L.
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
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Buck, Pearl S.
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
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Shakespeare, William
Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
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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