Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Lawana Blackwell

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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

Robert Orben

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Sam Levenson

19.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

20.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

21.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

22.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Groucho Marx

27.

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

28.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

31.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

32.

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

Daniel Raeburn

33.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

34.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

35.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

36.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

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

Dogen

40.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

41.

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

Lewin, Roger

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

44.

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

45.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

46.

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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

49.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.