Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Crane, Monta

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Capp, Al

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

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Dick Cavett

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

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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