Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Jameson, Anna

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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 child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

John Gray

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

Dick Cavett

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

Moses, Robert

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Plomp, John

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Bruce Barton

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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