Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Robert Byrne

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

15.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

16.

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

Ovid

17.

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

Who, Dr.

18.

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

Groucho Marx

19.

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

20.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

22.

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

Phyllis Diller

23.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

25.

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

26.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

27.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

28.

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

Epictetus

30.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

31.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

32.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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

Robert Orben

41.

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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

48.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

49.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

50.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.