Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lewin, Roger

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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.

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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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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

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Ruskin, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Sam Levenson

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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

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

Dogen