Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hunt, Leigh

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Robert Orben

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Bible

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

33.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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

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

John J. Plomp

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley