Motivational Quotes

Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Crane, Monta

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

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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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

15.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

16.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

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

Robert Orben

24.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

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

Wiesel, Elie

26.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

27.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Dogen

29.

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

30.

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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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

33.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

37.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

Groucho Marx

40.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

42.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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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

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.