Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell