Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Robert Orben

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Who, Dr.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Abbott, Lyman

10.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

15.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

19.

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

Crane, Monta

20.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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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

28.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

29.

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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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

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

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

Robert Orben

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

39.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

40.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

41.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

49.

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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore