Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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.

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

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

John Gray

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Wilmot, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Abbott, Lyman

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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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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

49.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jones, Franklin P.