Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ovid

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Epictetus

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

10.

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

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

13.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Baldwin, James

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

25.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Kraus, Karl

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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