Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Baldwin, James

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

Groucho Marx

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

William Shakespeare

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Eliot, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Shakespeare, William