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

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Moses, Robert

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

18.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jameson, Anna

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.