Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Crane, Monta

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Groucho Marx

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

William Shakespeare

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dick Cavett

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Plomp, John

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Chase, Alexander

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Decter, Midge

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett