Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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 raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kraus, Karl

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.