Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dick Cavett

10.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

11.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

21.

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

22.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

26.

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

27.

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

Phyllis Diller

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

King Edward VIII

35.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Robert Orben

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

42.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

49.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry