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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Robert Byrne

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Robert Orben

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Robert Orben

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Ball, Lucille

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Churchill, Winston