Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- King Edward VIII

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hulbert, Harold

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Picasso, Pablo

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Sam Levenson

13.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

King Edward VIII

20.

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

Dorothy Parker

21.

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

Epictetus

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

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

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

29.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

31.

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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Capp, Al

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Baldwin, James

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

41.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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