Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Capp, Al

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Robert Orben

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

18.

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

Abbott, Lyman

19.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

20.

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

Lewin, Roger

21.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

22.

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

Who, Dr.

24.

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

Norman Douglas

25.

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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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

28.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

29.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Ovid

41.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

44.

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

45.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

46.

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

48.

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

Lawana Blackwell

49.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

50.

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

Plomp, John