Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilmot, John

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Mead, Margaret

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.