Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Moses, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Edwards, Harry

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Norman Douglas

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lois McMaster Bujold