Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

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

Gray, Thomas

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Edwards, Harry

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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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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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Robert Orben

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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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