Motivational Quotes

Children

Children always turn to the light.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Children

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

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

Dogen

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

15.

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

Proverb

17.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

22.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Bruce Barton

34.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

36.

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

38.

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

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

44.

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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

46.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Epictetus