Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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

11.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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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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

17.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

22.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

23.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

31.

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Bruce Barton

39.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Epictetus

41.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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