Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Kraus, Karl

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

10.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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 society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Dogen

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

31.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Moustakas, Clark