Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Children

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Bible

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

11.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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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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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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 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 is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

John J. Plomp

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Groucho Marx

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

William Shakespeare

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