Motivational Quotes

Children

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Morley, Christopher

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

20.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Epictetus

24.

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

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

27.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

28.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jameson, Anna

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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 countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Ruskin, John

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

47.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Hulbert, Harold

49.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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