Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

- Meynell, Alice

Best Quotes about Children

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Sam Levenson

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

10.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Capp, Al

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

Dick Cavett

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

Abbott, Lyman

31.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Robert Orben

34.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

40.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

44.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

45.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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.