Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Norman Douglas

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

13.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

20.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

23.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

24.

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

Mead, Margaret

25.

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 also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Robert Byrne

29.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

30.

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

32.

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

34.

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

Hulbert, Harold

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

Ball, Lucille

37.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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

39.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

41.

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

42.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

44.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

45.

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

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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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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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

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben