Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Norman Douglas

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

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

12.

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

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

Ovid

14.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

23.

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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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

26.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Wilmot, John

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

Ruskin, John

40.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Robert Orben

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.