Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Children

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Sam Levenson

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

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Churchill, Winston

It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

11.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

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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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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

24.

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

Robert Orben

25.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Epictetus

30.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

31.

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

Mary MacCracken

32.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Shakespeare, William