Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bible

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Capp, Al

10.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ovid

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

17.

It takes three to make a child.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

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

John J. Plomp

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Moustakas, Clark

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Plomp, John

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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