Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Groucho Marx

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

20.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

Robert Orben

28.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

29.

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

Wilmot, John

31.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

32.

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

Picasso, Pablo

33.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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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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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