Motivational Quotes

Children

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

- Tauscher, Stacia

Best Quotes about Children

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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.

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

Robert Orben

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Chase, Alexander

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Dick Cavett

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Robert Byrne

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Mead, Margaret

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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 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.

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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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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

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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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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