Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Menninger, Karl A.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

20.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

28.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

30.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

31.

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

32.

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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Dick Cavett

36.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

37.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Who, Dr.

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Moses, Robert

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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