Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

John Gray

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Robert Orben

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Plomp, John

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Crane, Monta

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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