Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

17.

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

Epictetus

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mary MacCracken

24.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

25.

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

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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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

31.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Ruskin, John

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

34.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

36.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

38.

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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

40.

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

Plomp, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.