Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Bible

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

10.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

12.

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

Robert Orben

13.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

18.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

19.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

24.

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

25.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

28.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

31.

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

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

34.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Sam Levenson

36.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

39.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

40.

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

Groucho Marx

41.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

47.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

48.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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