Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Phyllis Diller

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

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

Dick Cavett

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

10.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

11.

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

Wiesel, Elie

12.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

22.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Mead, Margaret

25.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Groucho Marx

31.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

33.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Hunt, Leigh

35.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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 are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

44.

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

45.

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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle