Motivational Quotes

Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moses, Robert

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.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Robert Orben

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Morley, Christopher

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Lewin, Roger

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Sam Levenson

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Mary MacCracken

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Phyllis Diller

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

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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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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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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 never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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]