Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

10.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

13.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

16.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

21.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

22.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

24.

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

Lewin, Roger

25.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

32.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

34.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

35.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

36.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

39.

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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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.

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Curie, Madame Marie

45.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

46.

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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Robert Byrne

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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