Motivational Quotes

Children

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

- Campbell, Beatrix

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, English

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

Groucho Marx

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

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

Epictetus

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

Montessori, Maria

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

10.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

15.

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 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

17.

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

King Edward VIII

18.

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

19.

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

Moses, Robert

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Mary MacCracken

28.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

32.

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

Wiesel, Elie

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

37.

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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Phyllis Diller

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

43.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.