Motivational Quotes

Children

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Children

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Plomp, John

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

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Robert Orben

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mary MacCracken

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Who, Dr.

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

John J. Plomp

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

34.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

40.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse