Motivational Quotes

Children

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Who, Dr.

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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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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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Dick Cavett

40.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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