Motivational Quotes

Children

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

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

Capp, Al

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

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

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne