Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Freud, Sigmund

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

It takes three to make a child.

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

10.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

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

12.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Jameson, Anna

21.

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

Who, Dr.

22.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

28.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

30.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Dick Cavett

34.

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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

38.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

39.

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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

45.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

47.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hunt, Leigh

49.

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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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