Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Dick Cavett

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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

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

Capp, Al

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Key, Ellen

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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