Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Children

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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 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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

15.

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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

17.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

18.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

19.

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

Norman Douglas

20.

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

Rabbinical Saying

21.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

28.

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

Edwards, Harry

29.

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

30.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

33.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

34.

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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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

36.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

37.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

43.

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

44.

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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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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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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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

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Diana, Princess of Wales