Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Bible

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

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dogen

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

12.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

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

Robert Orben

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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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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

18.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Who, Dr.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

42.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.