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

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

15.

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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Who, Dr.

21.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

24.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

25.

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

28.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Gray, Thomas

32.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ball, Lucille

36.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

37.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Crane, Monta

44.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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.