Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Curie, Madame Marie

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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

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

Plomp, John

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Edwards, Harry

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie