Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

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

Capp, Al

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Freud, Sigmund

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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.

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Ovid

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Diana, Princess of Wales