Motivational Quotes

Children

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

- Crane, Monta

Best Quotes about Children

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

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Robert Byrne

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, English

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

Dick Cavett

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

Robert Orben

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

16.

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

Mead, Margaret

17.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

23.

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

John Gray

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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.

27.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

35.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

36.

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

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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

40.

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