Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

King Edward VIII

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

Norman Douglas

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

Proverb, English

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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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

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wilmot, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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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

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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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.