Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

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

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.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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.

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

Capp, Al

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

Wiesel, Elie

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Dorothy Parker

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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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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

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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

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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 poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Moustakas, Clark

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

King Edward VIII

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

42.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Robert Byrne

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas