Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Gray, Thomas

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

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

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

21.

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

Hunt, Leigh

22.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

27.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

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

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Dick Cavett

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

35.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

42.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

44.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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

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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

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Jameson, Anna