Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jameson, Anna

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bible

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dick Cavett

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

John J. Plomp

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are poor men's riches.