Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rabbinical Saying

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Groucho Marx

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moses, Robert

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Proverb, English

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

Jameson, Anna

39.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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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

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

Sam Levenson

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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