Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Norman Douglas

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Who, Dr.

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Epictetus

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Robert Orben

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.