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

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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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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

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Fran Lebowitz

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Proverb, English

20.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

27.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

28.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

29.

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

Gray, Thomas

30.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

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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

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

Plomp, John

35.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

40.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.