Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Baldwin, James

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dick Cavett

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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 giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb