Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

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

11.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

12.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

14.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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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

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

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

Robert Orben

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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

22.

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

Dorothy Parker

23.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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

25.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

26.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

27.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

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

30.

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

Norman Douglas

31.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

34.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

39.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!