Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

23.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

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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

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

Ovid

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Peter Ustinov

35.

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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.