Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rabbinical Saying

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Capp, Al

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

11.

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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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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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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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

16.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

17.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Robert Orben

23.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

27.

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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

31.

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

Robert Byrne

32.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

39.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

44.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

45.

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.

46.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Plomp, John

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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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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