Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

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

Robert Byrne

13.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

14.

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

Wiesel, Elie

15.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

16.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

19.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Dorothy Parker

22.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

23.

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

24.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

25.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

26.

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

28.

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

Nash, Ogden

29.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

It takes three to make a child.

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

31.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Capp, Al

35.

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

Mead, Margaret

36.

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

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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

40.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

41.

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

Sam Levenson

42.

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

43.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

44.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

45.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

46.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

47.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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