Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Ruskin, John

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

23.

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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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.