Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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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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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

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

John J. Plomp

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Proverb, English

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Morley, Christopher

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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