Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

John J. Plomp

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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

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

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Dick Cavett

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Robert Orben

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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