Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Picasso, Pablo

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

12.

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 in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Groucho Marx

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

John J. Plomp

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sam Levenson

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Capp, Al

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

Moses, Robert

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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