Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jameson, Anna

Best Quotes about Children

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

Peter Ustinov

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 are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

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

Jameson, Anna

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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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

17.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Bruce Barton

19.

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

20.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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

23.

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

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

34.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

37.

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

38.

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

Edwards, Harry

39.

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

40.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

42.

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

44.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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