Motivational Quotes

Children

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Proverb, English

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

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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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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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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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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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Who, Dr.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Robert Orben

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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