Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

William Shakespeare

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Bible

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Robert Orben

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.