Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Mary MacCracken

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

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

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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ovid

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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.

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Groucho Marx

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

Edwards, Harry

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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 poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Who, Dr.

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.