Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Peter Ustinov

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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.

11.

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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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

15.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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

Robert Orben

18.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

21.

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

Groucho Marx

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

24.

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

25.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

26.

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

Ball, Lucille

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

29.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Phyllis Diller

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

34.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

It takes three to make a child.

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

36.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

38.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

39.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

40.

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

Bombeck, Erma

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Dogen

43.

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

44.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

45.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

46.

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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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

49.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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