Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

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

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

Groucho Marx

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Robert Byrne

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Jameson, Anna

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Ovid

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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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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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

42.

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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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 may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Abbott, Lyman

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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.