Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilmot, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Morley, Christopher

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Who, Dr.

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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