Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Robert Byrne

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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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.

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Plomp, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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