Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Nash, Ogden

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Angelou, Maya

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Robert Orben

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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