Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Morley, Christopher

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Fran Lebowitz

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

14.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Norman Douglas

17.

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

18.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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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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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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

28.

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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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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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

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

40.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.