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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Groucho Marx

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sam Levenson

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Ovid

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Moses, Robert

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Robert Byrne

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Who, Dr.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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