Motivational Quotes

Children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

10.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

11.

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

Robert Orben

12.

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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

21.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

22.

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

Picasso, Pablo

23.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

25.

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

Bruce Barton

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

30.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Byrne

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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.