Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Robert Orben

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Oscar Wilde

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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.

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

William Shakespeare

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

Groucho Marx

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Robert Orben

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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

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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