Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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

Morley, Christopher

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

11.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

13.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

18.

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

Sam Levenson

19.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Dick Cavett

22.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chase, Alexander

25.

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

26.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

27.

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

28.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Robert Orben

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

Robert Orben

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

Norman Douglas

40.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

42.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

48.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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