Motivational Quotes

Children

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

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

King Edward VIII

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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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 should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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

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

Moses, Robert

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.