Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

John Gray

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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 might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Robert Byrne

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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