Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Plomp, John

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Buck, Pearl S.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Crane, Monta

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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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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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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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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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

King Edward VIII

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Baldwin, James

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Dogen

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

Fran Lebowitz

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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