Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

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

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

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

Plomp, John

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Groucho Marx

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Moustakas, Clark

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Rabbinical Saying

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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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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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dick Cavett

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

Eliot, George

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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

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Lewin, Roger

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Johnson, Lady Bird