Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ruskin, John

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Curie, Madame Marie

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, English

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

Ball, Lucille

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dick Cavett

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Groucho Marx

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Baldwin, James