Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Ball, Lucille

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Who, Dr.

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

19.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

20.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

25.

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

28.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Watts, Isaac

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

38.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

40.

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

John J. Plomp

41.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bible

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Plomp, John

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich