Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

- Hulbert, Harold

Best Quotes about Children

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Plomp, John

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

10.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Rabbinical Saying

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Polanski, Roman

27.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

30.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

31.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

35.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

36.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

38.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Epictetus