Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Children

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

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Dick Cavett

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Lewin, Roger

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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.