Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Dogen

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Who, Dr.

18.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

33.

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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ruskin, John

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