Motivational Quotes

Children

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Dyer, Wayne

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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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

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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

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Mary MacCracken

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Plomp, John

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Robert Orben

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty