Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

Plomp, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Bombeck, Erma

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Sam Levenson

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

Capp, Al

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Epictetus

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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley