Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

10.

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

11.

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

Norman Douglas

12.

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

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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

33.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

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

Capp, Al

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

44.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Robert Orben

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.