Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Watts, Isaac

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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.

Auden, W. H.

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Angelou, Maya

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Robert Orben

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

Robert Byrne

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Nash, Ogden

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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