Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dogen

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Bruce Barton

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

13.

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

14.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Dick Cavett

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

40.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

John Gray

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