Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

18.

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

Rabbinical Saying

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

21.

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

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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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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

25.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

28.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Dick Cavett

30.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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 to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

35.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

37.

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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Fran Lebowitz

41.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian