Motivational Quotes

Children

Children always turn to the light.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Morley, Christopher

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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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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 reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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It takes three to make a child.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett