Motivational Quotes

Children

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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.

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

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

King Edward VIII

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

27.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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

40.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Morley, Christopher

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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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.