Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Churchill, Winston

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Phyllis Diller

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

John J. Plomp

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

16.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

17.

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

18.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Rabbinical Saying

20.

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

21.

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

Hunt, Leigh

22.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, English

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

35.

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

36.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

Sam Levenson

38.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

44.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

45.

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

46.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

47.

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

Ball, Lucille

48.

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