Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Children

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Eliot, George

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

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

Moses, Robert

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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