Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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

Capp, Al

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Baldwin, James

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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

14.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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

Dogen

21.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

22.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

24.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

26.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

27.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

29.

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

Morley, Christopher

30.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

31.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

33.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

34.

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

35.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

36.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

39.

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

Jameson, Anna

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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

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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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Wilmot, John

47.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

48.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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.