Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Crane, Monta

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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 done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Plomp, John

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Robert Orben

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Robert Orben

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

Capp, Al

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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