Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dick Cavett

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

Jameson, Anna

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Crane, Monta

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Phyllis Diller

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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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

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Robert Orben

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Angelou, Maya

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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